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Comments to CMS Guidance on the Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program Due March 11, 2023

Health Law Advisor

This feedback must be submitted to CMS by March 11, 2023 via email ( IRARebateandNegotiation@cms.hhs.gov ). Stakeholders can view CMS’s issuance of the Initial Inflation Rebate Guidances as an early step in the complex, multi-year process CMS must undertake to implement the various IRA provisions.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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Magnolia Regional used price transparency IT to get more CHF patients to fill their prescriptions

Healthcare It News

"With prescription drug prices rising at every turn, patients need price transparency and the ability to discuss options with their doctors during office visits," Davis advised. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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New York Enacts Landmark Legislation Regulating PBMs

Health Care Law Brief

On December 31, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed landmark legislation to increase the transparency of prescription drug pricing and to establish requirements on pharmacy middlemen. Failure to obtain a license by 2023 could result in a cease and desist order from DFS and financial penalties. 1] [link].

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Health Populi

Add to that scenario a growing consensus for a likely recession in 2023. health care system not seen since the 1968 creation of Medicare, coupled with decreased reimbursement due to health care reform. Consumers will be facing greater medical price inflation in 2023 for health insurance plans, based on the latest forecast from WTW.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Vincent Parkview Health’s ASC strategy: 2 updates Indiana hospital margins lag behind nation, with some budgets in the red Report shows Indiana hospitals lost more than $700 million in income in 2023 Two Indiana Hospitals Receive a “D” in Patient Safety Franciscan Health to partner with nonprofits Beacon Health System receives $5.4M

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CMS Releases Guidance on Implementation of Rebate Programs for Certain Medicare Part B and Part D Drugs

Healthcare Law Blog

The Rebate Programs are administered as part of the prescription drug affordability provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (the “IRA”), which is aimed at “lower[ing] out-of-pocket drug costs for people with Medicare and improv[ing] the sustainability of the Medicare program for current and future generations.” [1]