drug pricing

Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican from Louisiana and ranking member of the Senate Health, ... Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, speaks beside Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont and chairman of the Senate Health,…

A key Senate panel advanced a package of bipartisan bills aimed at improving generic drug competition and reforming the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers (PBM). The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee…

Major stakeholders in the pharmaceutical industry on Wednesday testified in front of a key Senate panel to address questions over the affordability of insulin, with the assembled witnesses, as expected, passing the blame amongst each…

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 16: U.S. President Joe Biden (C) signs The Inflation Reduction Act with ... Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) (L) and House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) in the State Dining Room of the White House…

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) will hold a bipartisan markup next week on legislation to lower drug prices, committee leaders announced Tuesday. The May 2 markup will include bills on increasing…

Bipartisan leaders of the Senate Finance Committee are working on legislation targeting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the middlemen in the prescription drug supply chain who negotiate discounts with drug companies on behalf of…

Bristol Myers Squibb announced it is withdrawing its cancer drug, Opdualag, from the German market. ... This follows bluebird bio's exit from the German and European markets, when it failed to reach price agreements for its beta…

Senator Maria Cantwell is a Democrat from the state of Washington and chair of the Senate Commerce, ... Science and Transportation Committee. Photographer: Nathan Howard/Bloomberg © 2023 Bloomberg Finance LP The pressure on pharmacy…

A bipartisan Senate duo is working to reignite efforts to cap the cost of insulin for everyone with private insurance, rather than just Medicare.  Updated legislation introduced by Sens. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and John Kennedy…

The Biden administration has released its first list of nearly 30 drugs covered by Medicare that will be subject to the penalties included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), because their prices increased faster than the rate of…