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

FDA Law Blog

That proposal was withdrawn by the Trump HHS, but the notion of international reference pricing was subsequently incorporated in an October 2018 HHS Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) (see our post here ).

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

Physicians News Digest

But when the Trump administration proposed merging it with NIH in 2018, a House-ordered study into health research priorities validated AHRQ’s valuable role. Stephen Parente, a University of Minnesota finance professor who said he consults informally with Trump health officials, said much of AHRQ’s work could be done by others.