Inside Drug Pricing - 04/22/2019

Schakowsky Unveils Price Justification Bill Doggett Prefers To STAR Act

By Rachel Cohrs / April 16, 2019 at 4:31 PM
Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Francis Rooney (R-FL) have reintroduced a bill that would require manufacturers to provide HHS with advance notice and justification of price hikes on prescription drugs. House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee Chair Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) made it clear in a recent markup that he preferred Schakowsky’s bill to a watered-down alternative that the full Ways & Means Committee recently approved. Schakowsky and Rooney’s Fair Accountability and Innovative Research (FAIR) Drug Pricing Act of 2019 would...


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