Pharmacy
The deadline to respond is September 11, says chairman for the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
While retail pharmacy prices rose 9.1% from 2007 to 2020, negotiated prices grew by only 4.3% annually.
J&J would become the ultimate arbiter of whether a rebate should be approved and paid, AHA says.
The goal of Waltz Connect is to achieve transparency by unlocking competition among specialty pharmacies.
J&J alerted 340B hospitals that it will replace upfront discounts with rebates for Stelara and Xarelto.
CMS said that if the new prices had been in effect last year, Medicare would have saved an estimated $6 billion across the 10 drugs.
In a recent SEC filing, Walgreens acknowledged the existence of defaults under the VillageMD Secured Loan.
Other DoH initiatives include a new AI Healthcare Academy and a partnership with Eli Lilly and the World Obesity Foundation.
Nearly 10% of the U.S. population will be using GLP-1s in the next 10 years or sooner, Cigna CEO David Cordani says.