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

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That proposal was withdrawn by the Trump HHS, but the notion of international reference pricing was subsequently incorporated in an October 2018 HHS Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking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 ). Use of international reference pricing as a target for Medicare to negotiate prices with drug manufacturers appears in H.R.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law Blog

In 2018, Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs , but the edifice envisioned by the Blueprint largely failed to materialize. Court of Appeals (again, see our post ). The pieces of major drug pricing and payment reform are falling together.