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What the Election Could Mean for the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA’s) Medicare Reforms

4 Sep 2024

In August 2024, the IRA’s drug pricing provisions reached a significant milestone, with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announcing the final negotiated prices for the first ten drugs subject to negotiation. [...] The IRA’s Drug Pricing Provision: What’s at Stake on the Ballot? The IRA’s drug pricing provision is still in its nascent stage, and a political change in the White House or in Congress could derail implementation. [...] While this would not mean that the challengers to the law automatically win (in the case of the ACA lawsuit, for instance, state attorneys general stepped in to defend the law), it does make defending the law more difficult. [...] In August 2024, the IRA’s drug pricing provisions reached a significant milestone, with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announcing the final negotiated prices for the first ten drugs subject to negotiation. [...] The IRA’s Drug Pricing Provision: What’s at Stake on the Ballot? The IRA’s drug pricing provision is still in its nascent stage, and a political change in the White House or in Congress could derail implementation.

Authors

Kyra Sanborn

Pages
4
Published in
United States of America

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