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Oregon: Transparency’s Latest Frontier
On March 13, 2018, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that requires drugmakers to reportresearch and development and…
UnitedHealthcare Will Share Rebates with Patients
On March 6, 2018, UnitedHealthcare announced that beginning in 2019, the company will expand its pharmacy discounts to the seven…
White House White Paper on Pharma Pricing Released
In February 2018, the White House Council of Economic Advisers released a white paper, “Reforming Biopharmaceutical Pricing at…
New ESI Data Shows Medicine Spending Grew Just 1.5% in 2017
In early February 2018, Express Scripts Institute (ESI) released the 2017 Drug Report, which included new data that showed…
Watson Pharmaceuticals – Now Part of Teva – to Pay $33 Million to…
On January 29, 2018, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced a $33 million settlement with pharmaceutical manufacturer,…
Trump Administration Releases Budget Proposal Calls for Changes to Open…
The Trump Administration recently released its fiscal year (FY) 2019 budget proposal, including extensive health policy…
State of the Union De-Briefing
President Donald Trump gave his second State of the Union address this week, and while reactions to his speech were mixed, he…
Bipartisan Senators Release Committee Report on Drug Pricing Investigation
United States Senators Susan Collins and Claire McCaskill, the Chairwoman and Ranking Member of the Senate Aging Committee,…
Kmart Settles Whistleblower Case About Inflated Prices
Kmart Corp. has agreed to pay $42 million to the federal government and several states to settle a whistleblower lawsuit…
How 2016 Drug Spending Stacks Up
We have written many times about the way growth in drug spending has significantly been below the growth rate of overall national…