Inside Drug Pricing - 01/21/2019

Warner, Cassidy Writing Bill To Exempt Best Price, Anti-Kickback, Stark

By Rachel Cohrs / January 15, 2019 at 1:50 PM
Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Mark Warner (D-VA) are writing a bill to exempt performance-based drug-reimbursement contracts from the Medicaid best price rule, anti-kickback law and the so-called Stark law against doctor self-referrals, Council for Affordable Health Coverage President Joel White said Tuesday (Jan. 15). White said the senators plan to announce the bill as early as February, though details are still being discussed. “A lot of the reason these things don’t arise is that the government has stood in...


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