A leaked draft of an alleged White House executive order on drug prices calls for value-based contracts, lower Medicare beneficiary out-of-pocket costs, drug rebate reforms, restricted hospital drug discounts, faster FDA approvals and higher prices in other countries.
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A draft document obtained by Inside Health Policy sets out expected performance goals for an over-the-counter monograph user fee program (OMUFA) under which FDA would see improved review timelines and more efficient review capacity by year four of the program.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), Pew Charitable Trusts and American Academy of Pediatrics along with four other health-focused groups recently penned a letter to Sens. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and Bob Casey (D-PA) showing support for the senators' revised draft of their bill intended to reform FDA's over-the-counter (OTC) drug monograph system.
Recently unveiled over-the-counter (OTC) monograph legislation is all the more important to reducing the monograph backlog given that FDA's fiscal 2018 budget justification maintains fiscal 2017 funding levels for the agency's OTC review processes, the Pew Charitable Trusts recently recently told Inside Health Policy.
CMS proposed Tuesday (June 20) to exempt more doctors from the performance measures of Medicare's new physician pay rule, delay measuring doctor...
Senate GOP leadership will release a working draft of its version of the American Health Care Act on Thursday (June 22) with the goal of a...
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is acting on his promise to congressional appropriators that the agency will hold a public meeting...
