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Ensuring Most-Favored Nation Drug Pricing Doesn’t Sicken Us
Featured Experts: Darius Lakdawalla, Dana Goldman
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STAT
Expanded coverage of GLP-1s is “probably the single most effective policy” for improving public health, Goldman says
Featured Experts: Dana Goldman
The Wall Street Journal
Many firms producing knockoff weight-loss drugs are “pushing the envelope” on legal requirements for compounders, Schiller says
Featured Experts: Lowell Schiller
Healthcare Dive
Sood recommends key PBM reforms in testimony before U.S. Senate panel
Featured Experts: Neeraj Sood
CalMatters
California’s proposal to establish fiduciary duty for PBMs would be an important cost-saving reform, Joyce says
Featured Experts: Geoffrey Joyce
Healthcare Brew
Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation law banning PBM ownership of pharmacies should be implemented slowly to ensure access, Qato says
Featured Experts: Dima M. Qato
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‘Most-Favored Nation’ Drug Pricing Has Three Significant Problems
Instead of importing shortsighted foreign prices into the American market, the U.S. should export rational, forward-looking prices overseas.
Experts: Darius Lakdawalla, Dana Goldman
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