Medicare's Foreign Price Bench-marking Will Only Hurt Bad Negotiators, HHS's Azar Argues

President Trump touts CMS proposal that would peg Part B prices to an international index in the hopes of lowering US costs; industry calls it foreign price controls and warns it will hinder access.

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HHS Secretary Alex Azar, once a pharmaceutical company executive, believes his former colleagues can easily make up the loss President Trump's new drug pricing proposal would create. If not, they may need to make personnel changes, he suggested.

An advanced notice of proposed rulemaking released Oct. 25 by CMS seeks to test whether using a combination of...

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