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IRA, 340B, Leqembi and House PBM Reform Advance to the Fight Club Final Four

Yesterday, we saw three blowouts and one nail-biter. The details are below, but if you’re caffeinated and must rush, here’s today’s ballot. I’m not particularly surprised that “IRA’s 10 selected
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IRA ‘Selected Drugs,’ 340B Come Up Big In the First Round of Fight Club

The first round is in the books, and we got one clear knockout, one big “upset,” and some clear trends on how you all thought about the environment in 2023.
2 years ago
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Cost Curve Fight Club Kicks Off Now … Your Input Is Needed

Happy Boxing Day.  I know that “Boxing Day” has nothing to do with fighting, but it still seems like an apt day to launch Cost Curve Fight Club, an end-of-year
2 years ago
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Introducing a New Holiday Tradition: Fight Club

Cost Curve Fight Club starts on Tuesday as a way of making the break a little more entertaining for those of you who love this stuff too much to stay
2 years ago
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What’s Important Enough to Prompt Senators to Work This Week? Copay Accumulators, Natch

Scheduling Note: Cost Curve isn’t exactly taking a holiday break. Instead, tomorrow, I’ll unveil the end-of-the-year “Cost Curve Fight Club” in which we can vote on (and, hopefully, argue about)
2 years ago
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I’m Sure I’ve Written This Headline Before, but Drug Prices Aren’t Skyrocketing

Scheduling Note: Cost Curve is off tomorrow, back Thursday. “Drug prices are not skyrocketing” is something that we say around here a lot. That doesn’t quite get at the truth,
2 years ago
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New Math on Hep C Drugs Suggests Medicines May Be a Way Better Deal Than We Thought

So to strip things down to the basics, most cost-effectiveness analyses of drugs look at only three components: 1) What does it cost? 2) How does it extend or improve
2 years ago
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A New JAMA Paper on Patent Law Is a Good Excuse to Detail the ‘Arnold Playbook’

Like what you’re reading? Forward to a friend. Received this as a forward? Sign up here. As a simple matter of data-dredging and analysis, this Public Citizen project -- covered
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Two Stories on GLP-1s Illustrate the Weaponization of Utilization Management

Scheduling Note: Cost Curve is off tomorrow. Back on Friday The two most important stories today are a pair out of Reuters on the obstacles that payers are erecting around
2 years ago
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The House yesterday passed a mammoth health bill -- including some of the most sweeping PBM regulations ever -- by a huge margin. It includes a ban on spread pricing
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