House Budget Committee Republicans are questioning the Biden administration's interpretation of a 2023 debt limit law provision that permits exemptions from proposed budget-balancing measures for certain regulatory actions.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a second wave of warning letters to 10 additional companies for submitting what it deems “junk” patent listings in FDA’s Orange Book, including patents for Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster drug Ozempic and other drugs for diabetes, weight loss, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
In light of its new rule asserting regulatory authority over laboratory-developed tests, FDA will continue to exercise enforcement discretion for some tests during public health emergencies (PHEs) and for emergent public health threats, the agency says, depending on public health needs, especially if unauthorized tests are the only options available to diagnose an emerging disease.
House Budget Committee Republicans are questioning the Biden administration's interpretation of a 2023 debt limit law provision that permits exemptions from proposed budget-balancing measures for certain regulatory actions.
House Energy & Commerce Committee members scuffled over a new home and community-based services rule that sets a baseline for Medicaid payments to direct care workers -- and the impact the rule will have on access to care -- during a committee hearing Tuesday (April 30).
FDA plans to hold a listening session in June to discuss possible changes to the role of its advisory committees, coming as senior agency officials seek to shift the advisers’ focus on product approval decisions to debates surrounding scientific policies.
Joseph Grogan, who headed the Domestic Policy Council for the former Trump administration, tells Inside Health Policy it would be legislatively difficult to revise the Inflation Reduction Act due to Congressional Budget Office scoring, but he thinks there are several steps Donald Trump if reelected could take to make Medicare drug negotiations more transparent.
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A controversial provision under Medicare’s new drug price negotiation program that permits Medicare to negotiate lower prices for small-molecule drugs after nine years on the market could throw off existing efforts to curb an ongoing epidemic of opioid overdoses in the United States by disincentivizing the development of non-opioid pain medications, most of which are small molecule drugs, according to a new policy paper by the Pioneer Institute. |
House Budget Committee Republicans are calling for an investigation into the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation after a September Congressional Budget Office report highlighted high spending from CMMI in its first decade. |
FDA’s proposed rule on banning menthol cigarettes will not be finalized in the near future, the White House confirmed Friday (April 26) after months of delays, in a decision likely tied to electoral concerns ahead of the pending 2024 presidential election, despite robust support from FDA leadership for the proposal. |
Pfizer plans to allow payers to use a “warranty” approach to pay for its new costly gene therapy, the company announced after gaining FDA approval Friday (April 26) of Beqvez (fidanacogene elaparvovec-dzkt) for the treatment of adult patients with moderate to severe hemophilia B. |
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