Senate To Include Drug Pricing, Surprise Billing In Health Costs Package

By Ariel Cohen, John Wilkerson / May 16, 2019 at 9:04 PM
Senate committee leaders are looking to include surprise billing legislation and several drug-pricing bills in an upcoming health care cost-reduction package. The package may include other bipartisan health bills, senators and staffers noted, but likely will not include a redux of the Alexander-Murray legislation to stabilize the Affordable Care Act, due to concerns over the Hyde amendment, which stalled the bill last year. Senators have not yet decided which drug pricing bills will be included in the health care package...


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