OMB Reviews Drug Rebate Ban Final Rule; Moderna Unveils Good News On Vaccine

By John Wilkerson, Ariel Cohen / November 16, 2020 at 2:52 PM
White House budget officials on Friday (Nov. 13) began reviewing a final rule to ban drug rebates, even though they supposedly withdrew the proposed version of that rule in 2019, and HHS officials announced a second major milestone in coronavirus vaccine development in as many Mondays. Lobbyists believe the administration is trying to finish some regulations before Jan. 20 to box-in President-elect Joe Biden. They say HHS Secretary Alex Azar, CMS Administrator Seema Verma and White House Chief of Staff...


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