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Biosimilar uptake is increasing and so are health savings

By Jocelyn Ulrich  |    October 17, 2022
There has been a lot of talk recently about the biosimilars marketplace and what role biosimilars play in reducing health care costs. We’re here to set the record straight about how these medicines...   Read More

CMS coverage policies restrict patient access to important treatment options for Alzheimer’s disease

By Gabby Migliara  |    September 1, 2022
There’s been a lot of discussion this year about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) national coverage determination (NCD) for new Alzheimer’s treatments finalized earlier this year in...   Read More

The Senate’s latest price setting proposal will undermine: Patient access to medicines

By Nicole Longo  |    July 26, 2022
Members of Congress continue to push a misguided drug pricing proposal under the guise of negotiation as part of the reconciliation package. This proposal is nothing short of government price setting...   Read More

New research shows competition driven by biosimilars helps control costs in Part B

By Gabby Migliara  |    July 19, 2022
Discussions about spending in Medicare Part B, including a recent report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC, too often overlook how competition between medicines drives down the...   Read More

CMS coverage decision restricts access to treatments for Alzheimer’s disease

By Nicole Longo  |    June 22, 2022
This year’s Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month offers an important opportunity to remember the severe toll that Alzheimer’s takes on patients and family caregivers. Unfortunately, this year also...   Read More

Part B 101: Three charts show the program helps control costs for health care system and enrollees

By Nicole Longo  |    February 18, 2022
Medicare Part B covers a wide range of health care services, including physician office visits, hospital outpatient care and medical equipment. It also covers medicines that are usually administered...   Read More

PhRMA submits comments urging CMS to withdraw coverage proposal

By Lauren Neves  |    February 11, 2022
In comments submitted this week, PhRMA urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to withdraw its proposed national coverage determination (NCD) for monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for the...   Read More

It’s a new year, but sadly Congress is still pursuing flawed price setting policies

By Nicole Longo  |    January 25, 2022
As we kick off 2022, Congress has a number of priorities they are aiming to tackle, including the Build Back Better Act (BBBA). Unfortunately, the bill includes policies that would take the...   Read More

Post-approval research save lives. Why is Congress trying disincentivize it?

By Andrew Powaleny  |    December 17, 2021
While some in Congress continue to claim the latest drug pricing plan in Washington is “negotiation,” that is far from the truth. The reality is that the current plan gives the government a new...   Read More

A price control by any other name would still put patients at risk and threaten innovation

By Nicole Longo  |    December 9, 2021
Some policymakers in DC are laser focused on giving the government the power to “negotiate” in Medicare. What they aren’t saying is that this isn’t negotiation at all. They essentially just want the...   Read More

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