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Word of the Month: 340B covered entity

By Nicole Longo  |    August 29, 2022
What is a 340B covered entity?   Read More

Making coupons count for patients at the pharmacy counter

By Katie Koziara  |    August 25, 2022
Too many patients face high out-of-pocket costs for brand medicines, even when they have insurance.   Read More

Frazier PhRMA Scholarship awarded to four college-bound students in Philadelphia and DC

By Rachel Weissman  |    August 22, 2022
The Kenneth C. Frazier PhRMA Scholars Program is going strong in 2022—and we are expanding our horizons to a new city. This summer, we are thrilled to announce four new recipients: Arianna...   Read More

ICYMI: New research builds upon growing body of evidence on value of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines

By Andrew Powaleny  |    August 16, 2022
Innovative biopharmaceutical research companies have been dedicated to fighting COVID-19 for over two years. Since the start of the pandemic, America’s biopharmaceutical companies have worked around...   Read More

Insulin and reconciliation

By Brian Newell  |    August 15, 2022
With Congress sending to the president a partisan reconciliation spending bill, the cost of insulin is receiving greater attention. Numerous proposals have been introduced in recent months aimed at...   Read More

New survey: Voters seriously concerned about fine print in reconciliation bill

By Mark Keida  |    August 12, 2022
With a final vote in Congress expected on a reconciliation spending bill, a new Morning Consult survey explores what this legislation actually does – and does not do – and finds that voters are...   Read More

This week’s reading list: All the reasons the Senate-passed drug pricing bill is bad policy

By Nicole Longo  |    August 10, 2022
Last weekend, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act which includes dangerous price-setting provisions. The bill now heads to the House for consideration, where it is not too late for them to...   Read More

Value assessment should include all aspects of value that matter to patients

By Emilie Signora  |    August 10, 2022
We need to move toward a more value-driven health care system that centers around patients’ needs. Sound evidence can help guide us toward that, and we’re committed to developing tools to help...   Read More

Making coupons count for patients with HIV

By Emilie Signora  |    August 8, 2022
Despite having insurance, too many patients with HIV face high out-of-pocket costs for brand medicines. This is largely driven by insurer-imposed barriers that shift the cost of life-saving care onto...   Read More

Myth vs. Fact: The Senate’s latest price setting proposal

By Nicole Longo  |    August 5, 2022
The narratives being built around the Senate’s latest price setting proposal frame it as a bill intended to lower drug prices for patients and address rising inflation. But those narratives aren’t...   Read More

An open letter to Congress: Stand with patients and future cures

By Stephen J. Ubl  |    August 4, 2022
I recently joined PhRMA board members in penning the letter below to Congress, urging them to abandon their latest drug pricing proposal. You can read the letter here or below:   Read More

ICYMI: Patients across the country are sharing concerns about government price setting

By Matthew Norawong  |    August 3, 2022
As members of Congress continue to push forward misguided government price-setting policies under the guise of “negotiation,” patient advocates across the country have been speaking out in local...   Read More

The Senate’s latest price setting proposal will undermine U.S. economic growth

By Nicole Longo  |    August 3, 2022
Last week, we examined ways the latest drug pricing proposal will undermine patient access to medicines, American medical innovation and our health care system as a whole. But there is another...   Read More

Celebrating Medicare’s 57th anniversary

By Gabby Migliara  |    August 2, 2022
In case you missed it, Saturday, July 30, marked the anniversary of Medicare. For 57 years, Medicare has helped pay for medical care for Americans over the age of 65, as well as younger Americans...   Read More

New analysis finds deeper impact of drug pricing bill on biopharmaceutical researchers

By Brian Newell  |    August 1, 2022
A new analysis by the health care analytics and research firm Avalere reveals the partisan drug pricing bill will have a much deeper impact on the biopharmaceutical research industry than previously...   Read More

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