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CMS proposes to Withdraw Trump Era Most Favored Nation (MFN) Drug Pricing Rule

FDA Law Blog

The idea of basing Medicare drug reimbursement on prices in foreign countries was first proposed during the Obama Administration in 2016. The Trump Administration rule had a troubled history.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Survey data gathered by AHRQ provides much of what is known about hospitalizations for motor accidents, measles, methamphetamine, and thousands of other medical issues. Makary published a controversial study in 2016 hypothesizing that errors killed 250,000 people a year in the U.S. Nobody does these things except AHRQ,” she said.