Rebate Proposals Targeting Single-Use Vials May Be Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Policymakers should instead focus on increasing efficiencies in drug development, distribution and reimbursement, National Academies report says, while also seeking broad policies like HHS direct negotiation for drug prices in Medicare.

NASEM Report Includes Eight Recommendations On Discarded Drugs From Single-Use Vials

There is little recoverable value in discarded injectable or infused drugs from single-use vials, so ideas like requiring rebates from manufacturers for left-over drug are unlikely to be successful, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine concludes in a report released on 25 February.

The Congressionally mandated consensus study report, entitled “Medications in Single-Dose Vials: Implications of Discarded Drugs,” focuses on federal healthcare...

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