HHS Leadership Upheaval Could Delay Initiatives Impacting Biopharma

Secretary Price will be succeeded on an acting basis by HHS acting assistant secretary for health Donald Wright, and everything from development of the executive order on drug pricing to pending Medicare reimbursement experiments could see a pause as part of the transition.

HHS Secretary Tom Price
Former HHS Secretary Tom Price

A presidential executive order on drug costs and Medicare payment experiments for prescription drugs are a couple of the pending biopharma-related initiatives that now become the responsibility of HHS Acting Secretary Donald Wright with the departure of Tom Price.

The White House announced Price's resignation Sept. 29 and said he will be succeeded on an acting basis by current...

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