PhRMA regards drug price negotiation for Medicare as an existential threat to its business — potentially costing billions.
Nov 18, 2021
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LABETTE HEALTH BEGAN USING CONTRACT PHARMACIES IN 2014 AND NOW HAS ABOUT 20 DOTTING THE RURAL LANDSCAPE OF SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS./JOHN KNOWLES/INVESTIGATE TV/KHN
Congress created the 340B program to provide extra funding for hospitals and clinics, but some pharmaceutical manufacturers are refusing to honor the federal drug discount program.
Nov 16, 2021
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U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
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Activists demonstrated outside the U.S. Congressman's Oregon City district office in protest of his vote opposing a proposal to lower prescription drug prices.
The state’s Prescription Drug Price Transparency Program was created to illuminate pharmaceutical pricing practices, but pharmaceutical companies have shielded information they say infringes on trade secrets.