Senate Bill Would Codify CMS Drug-Ad Price-Disclosure Rule

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced a bill Tuesday (May 14) to codify a CMS rule requiring that television drug advertisements disclose list prices, and Senate health committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Sen. Angus King (I-ME) are cosponsors. The drug industry is expected to sue HHS over the rule, published last week , and HHS Secretary Alex Azar has said the regulation would stand a better chance of surviving litigation if Congress were to pass a...