CMS Opened a Same-Day Coverage Lane for Devices and Closed the Payment Route Underneath It
CMS Opened a Same-Day Coverage Lane for Devices and Closed the Payment Route Underneath It
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Washington Narrowed the Childhood Schedule, and the Insurer Backstop Quietly Stopped Being One
Washington Narrowed the Childhood Schedule, and the Insurer Backstop Quietly Stopped Being One
The Year’s Two Largest Conjugate Deals Were Not ADCs, and Not Cancer Drugs
Buyers stopped paying for conjugate drugs and started paying for conjugate chemistry. The year’s two biggest cheques bought neither an ADC nor a cancer drug.
Washington Removed the Cushion Under Part D, and Handed the Auditors an Algorithm
Washington ended the subsidy holding Part D premiums down, charged a record number of Medicaid fraud defendants, and put prosecutors’ analytics inside CMS.
Approval Is Day One. In Canada, Patients Wait Another Five Hundred Days.
A Canadian government task force counted the wait for public drug coverage: 200 days for HTA, 195 for price negotiation, then up to 219 more per province.
China Stopped Excluding Patented Drugs From Its Price Cuts. Now the Bidder Signs for the Risk.
Eight patent-sensitive molecules were admitted to China’s price-cutting round on one condition: the bidder signs an intellectual property undertaking and carries the risk.
Trump Wants Generics Made in America by 2028. The Economics Say They Can’t.
Trump gave generic drugmakers until August 2028 before a 100% tariff, rising to 200% in 2029. The problem is the margin those drugs actually carry.
Spain rewrites its drug-pricing rulebook, and the price of a generic will now fall as it sells more
Spain’s new draft Medicines Law will cut the price of generics and biosimilars automatically as their market share grows, replacing a system where prices froze after one initial discount.