CMS Says It Can Make Plans Share Rebates With Seniors, Despite Lawmakers’ Warnings About Interfering In Rx Price Negotiations

CMS officials maintain that they can require plans to share rebates and pharmacy price concessions with beneficiaries at the pharmacy counter, and Administrator Seema Verma said Monday (April 2) that policy is still being considered but declined to say when CMS will decide whether to propose such a rule. Congress is split, even among Republicans, over whether forcing plans to share rebates and pharmacy price concessions with beneficiaries would be considered an interference in negotiations between brand drug makers and...