Showing posts with label drug pricing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drug pricing. Show all posts
Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Medicaid to Receive Most Favored Nation Pricing on Pfizer Drugs

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The White House has announced that President Trump has made a deal with Pfizer for state Medicaid to receive most favored nation pricing on ...
Monday, 20 March 2023

California to Have Insulin Manufactured and Sold at Lower Price

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California Governor Gavin Newsom is following through on promises to attack the high cost of drugs.  The press release states: Governor Ga...
Monday, 22 August 2022

Bipartisan Letter from U.S. Senators on Drug Patent Thickets

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I n June, U.S. Senators Leahy (Democrat) and Cornyn (Republican) (and others) sent a letter to the United States Patent and Trademark Office...
Monday, 8 August 2022

Proposed U.S. Inflation Reduction Act Takes on (some) Drug Pricing Issues in United States

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U.S. Senator Joe Manchin released a press release concerning the U.S. Senate’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.  Importantly...
Saturday, 6 November 2021

U.S. DOJ Settles Generic Drug Price Fixing Cases -- Over $400 million

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The U.S. Department of Justice has settled several lawsuits concerning essentially of illegal price fixing between companies offering generi...
Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Biden Administration Executive Order on Competition: Some IP Portions

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On July 9, 2021, the Biden Administration released an “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy” that literally will...
Thursday, 13 May 2021

Biden Administration's Support of the So-Called WTO Waiver of COVID-19 Related IP

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There’s been a lot of commentary going around regarding the Biden Administration’s support of South Africa and India’s proposed WTO waiver o...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Trump to Push Pharma on Drug Pricing

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President Trump is continuing his push to fulfill campaign promises.  Apparently, he is meeting with pharmaceutical companies this week to ...
Wednesday, 26 August 2020

President Trump's Executive Orders to Address Drug Pricing

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In July, President Trump issued three Executive Orders designed to decrease the cost of prescription drugs.   The executive orders are par...
Monday, 29 June 2020

Gilead Sciences Releases Letter on Pandemic Pricing of COVID-19 Treatment

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The Chairman and CEO of Gilead Sciences, Daniel O’Day, has released an open letter concerning the pricing of the COVID-19 treatment remde...
Tuesday, 17 March 2020

The Coronavirus Pandemic -- An Opportunity for the BioPharmaceutical Industry?

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The Santa Cruz Sentinel (Wow!) has an excellent news article about a Gilead Sciences drug used (in combination with other treatments) to...
Friday, 6 March 2020

Another Government Report Tackling Pharmaceutical Pricing in the United States that Takes Aim at Patenting Practices

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The State of Minnesota has recently released a 94 page report on drug pricing and access titled, “ Report of Minnesota Attorney General’s...
Saturday, 23 November 2019

Trump's New Drug Pricing Plan to be Released Soon -- Pay to Play?

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How strange.  I was just thinking about why President Trump hasn't said much about drug pricing recently and then this . . . .  Presiden...
Saturday, 4 August 2018

Bloomberg Tracking Pharmaceutical Prices

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One way the Trump Administration appears to attempt to control drug prices is through use of the “bully pulpit.”   Wikipedia states that...
Thursday, 19 July 2018

Trump Administration FDA Moves to Speed Up Biosimilar Process in United States

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The high cost of health care in the United States is a significant issue.  Some research points to two causes of the high cost in the United...