Some States Like Maryland’s New Rx Pricing Idea, Others Reject It

Consumer advocates in Maryland won a drug-pricing victory against the brand-drug lobby last week when the state legislature passed a bill creating a prescription drug affordability review board that could pursue the power to set ceiling prices for government payers. The proposal has spread to several other states, with varying success. A bill in Nevada that would allow an affordability review board to set upper payment limits passed out of a senate committee on Wednesday (April 10). Massachusetts held a...