As the Trump administration begins to make its mark on the Medicare drug price negotiation program and pursue its own policies on prescription drugs, litigation over program continues. In the two ...
On May 12, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued draft guidance for the third cycle of the IRA’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program (Negotiation Program). This draft ...
As President Donald Trump touts new deals to cut the cost of blockbuster drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, he’s barely mentioned Medicare’s drug price negotiation program — even though the government is ...
Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I'm your host, Jeff Byers. We are recording on 11/04/2025. In late September, CMS published its final guidance for the third cycle of the Medicare drug ...
An appeals court has ruled against a legal challenge to the Drug Price Negotiation Program. On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit sided with the Department of Health and Human ...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act removed a number of orphan drugs from being subject to price negotiations, and this could cost the Medicare program $8.8 billion over the course of about 10 years. That ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Drugs that treat Type 2 diabetes, HIV and arthritis are among 15 new medications chosen for a Medicare drug price negotiation program that allows the federal government to haggle ...