Drug Prices
This report outlines the key trends impacting hospital financial stability in 2025.
The Trump administration has announced a number of agreements with drug companies to lower U.S. drug prices to levels similar to other countries’, and has proposed several new drug payment models through the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).
The AHA commented today on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed rule on the Global Benchmark for Efficient Drug Pricing Model, or GLOBE, a new mandatory Medicare payment model issued in December. The model seeks to make most-favored-nation prices available…
The issue of affordability, including health care affordability, is front and center this year and will be part of this year's congressional and administration discussions, as well as the mid-term elections.
AHA Statement before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Health Subcommittee on “Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Prescription Drug Supply Chain”
The White House yesterday launched TrumpRx, the direct-to-consumer platform that will serve as a hub to direct cash-paying consumers to drug manufacturers and pharmacies to purchase discounted prescription drugs. The website offers coupons to consumers to purchase drugs at most-…
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General Jan. 27 released a bulletin addressing how direct-to-consumer drug programs can sell prescription drugs to patients with federal health care program coverage at lower costs without violating the Anti-Kickback Statute.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Jan. 27 announced 15 drugs under Medicare Parts D and B selected for the third round of price negotiations.
The White House released a health care plan Jan. 15 addressing drug prices, health insurance premiums and price transparency efforts.
Absent any statutory consequences for not completing the OPPS Drug Acquisition Cost Survey (ODACS), it is wrong for CMS to tell hospitals and health systems that they “are to” complete it.