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Green Practice News: May 2025

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For instance, the UK government’s initiative to install solar panels on National Health Service sites is projected to save each site up to £45,000 annually, amounting to approximately £13 million in total savings per year. The product manufacturers and vendors will need to be active partners as well.

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Could the Road to an AKS Violation Be Paved with Good Intentions? Pfizer Asks SCOTUS

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Pfizer manufactures tafamidis (sold under brand names Vyndaqel and Vyndamax), a breakthrough treatment for a rare, progressive heart condition called transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). The Court found that there is at best little utility in interpreting the AKS by reference to the BIS. Background.

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Price Limits, Affordability Boards, Penalties, Oh My: Minnesota Enacts Sweeping Drug Pricing Reforms

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Kirschenbaum — On May 24, Minnesota enacted the Commerce and Consumer Protection Omnibus Bill, Senate File 2744 ( SF 2744 ), which significantly expands the state’s existing drug pricing activities with serious implications for all drug manufacturers, and particularly generic drug manufacturers. We address each below. Best price?

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CMS Publishes Grab Bag of Proposed Changes to the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program

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Kirschenbaum — Last Friday, May 26, CMS published in the Federal Register an assortment of proposals to change the regulations governing the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. Most are new or revised definitions and administrative changes, but several proposals represent new policies that should be of concern to drug manufacturers.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 2)

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This bill, which addresses numerous areas of the economy, public health, and government regulation, includes Subtitle E, Drug Pricing. The MFP would be established through negotiations between HHS and the manufacturer and would incorporate foreign pricing benchmarks, as further described below. 3, the Elijah E.

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

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A final OIG rule to change the structure of manufacturer rebates to Medicare Part D and Medicaid Managed Care plans and their PBMs is enmeshed in litigation and is likely to be at least postponed until 2026 (see our post ), and perhaps prevented from implementation altogether, by Congressional mandate.