Medicare drug price negotiations: New guidelines for round 2 with top drugmakers

After finalizing its first round of negotiations for the first 10 drugs in the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program in August, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced plans ... Read More

Independent pharmacies supplying LTC could drop lower-priced drugs in new Medicare program

More than half of independent pharmacies are warning that they might no longer stock the first 10 drugs subject to new lower, Medicare-negotiated prices once the program starts in 2026. Read More

Here are the Medicare Part D drugs expected to face 2025 price negotiations

With prices finalized for the first 10 Medicare Part D drugs selected for the initial round of pricing negotiations, attention now turns to the next 15 drugs the U.S. government is eyeing for the ... Read More

CMS Releases Prices for Inflation Reduction Act Drug Price Negotiation Program

On Thursday, August 15, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the prices for the first 10 prescription drugs selected for negotiation with manufacturers under the Inflation ... Read More

Wegovy is among drugs set to be targeted in the next round of Medicare price negotiations, researchers say

The GLP-1 drug ... Medicare price negotiations, according to a paper in the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy. Last month, Medicare officials unveiled prices for the first 10 drugs ... Read More

Medicare tweaks rules for second round of drug price talks

Medicare revealed prices for those 10 drugs, which were selected for the initial round of negotiations ... Among the first 10 drugs chosen were the widely used blood thinners Eliquis and Xarelto ... Read More

US Medicare Issues Updated Rules for Second Round of Drug Negotiations

US Medicare Issues Updated Rules for Second Round of Drug Negotiations By Ahmed ... CMS announced prices for ten drugs in August in its first round of cuts following a year of talks. Read More

Fact check: Harris correct that Trump fell short on promise to negotiate Medicare drug prices

“Donald Trump said he was going to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices,” Harris said during the ABC News debate on Sept. 10 ... the White House, just like he accomplished in his first ... Read More

CMS readies changes for 2nd round of drug price negotiation program

The Centers for Medicare ... for the first round of 10 drugs ended in August, with the new prices set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2026. The feds anticipate the first round of negotiations will ... Read More

Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program Gets Final Guidance For Second Cycle, $1.5B Savings Expected

The first round of negotiations focused on 10 specific drugs. Medicare recipients should save approximately $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket costs when the new prices take effect in 2026. By February ... Read More

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WATCH: Biden delivers remarks on lowering prescription drug prices during visit to NIH Hundreds of thousands of older Americans could pay less for some of their outpatient drug treatments ... Read More

An appeals court has revived a challenge to President Biden's Medicare drug price reduction program

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A constitutional challenge to the Biden administration program enabling Medicare ... The first 10 drugs targeted for negotiations were announced last year, and new prices ... Read More