Healthcare & Drug Prices

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (600+ words) We have received text from S. 5586: Ensuring Accurate Payments to Specialty Pharmacies Act. This bill was received on 2026-09-29, and currently has 1 cosponsor. This bill would change how Medicaid figures out what to pay certain pharmacies, especially specialty and other non-retail pharmacies....

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (479+ words) Americans prefer independent physician practices over corporate-owned hospitals by nearly a five-to-one margin. But despite patient preference, only 18% of physicians are practicing medicine in physician-owned settings, a new low amid high rates of hospital consolidation. Why is independent medicine disappearing,…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (382+ words) The list of private initiatives on P.E.I. continues to grow. For example, we believe that the web service Peidoctor.com violates the CHA. In Canada you either work in the public sector or the private sector. You cannot do both. That…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (520+ words) As Utah’s 20th attorney general, I learned to distinguish between policies that are politically popular and those that are lawful. That matters as lawmakers consider banning pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, from owning or operating pharmacies in Utah. This may seem…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (368+ words) Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A lobbying group that represents pharmaceutical manufacturers filed suit against the federal government on Oct. 7 over a program aimed at reducing the prices of drugs. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (550+ words) There's a lot about healthcare that Americans actually agree on. In our Common Ground project with KFF Health News, we're looking at issues with bipartisan backing. Blake Farmer at WPLN in Nashville reports on one thing that is uniting people…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (408+ words) The Trump administration claims that Medicaid will save billions on prescription drug costs as a result of the plan, dubbed the Medicaid “GENEROUS” model. Experts say the savings are unclear since the content of the deals isn’t public. WATCH THE…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (597+ words) NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A Trump administration rule to cut hospital drug prices for Medicare patients ‌may apply to as few as four drugmakers ‌after exempting companies that signed separate "most favored nation" pricing agreements with ​the administration, according to…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (478+ words) 2017-08-01-A recently overlooked part of the health reform debate has been how to control rising costs. CBO: Drug Importation Saves $1 Billion Per Year A recently overlooked part of the health reform debate has been how to control rising costs. One…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1208+ words) Ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, President Donald Trump has increasingly touted his drug pricing deals, claiming the U.S. is now paying the world’s lowest prescription drug prices. “This one thing alone should win us the midterms,” he recently said at…...