Drug Pricing
Our work in Drug Pricing
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How the Secrecy of Middlemen Inflates Drug Prices
Drug costs can be driven down if market forces are allowed to target those profits, but first everyone needs to know what is being charged, and by whom to whom.
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Congress Wants a Better Value. So Why Are They Eliminating Performance Based Payment?
Doctors, pharmacists, and even drug company sales reps are all paid based on performance because it incentivizes desired outcomes.
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White House Names First 10 Drugs for Medicare Negotiations; USC Policy Experts Available to Discuss Market Impact
Medicare released the list of the first 10 drugs subject to price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), aiming to reduce drug costs for Medicare enrollees and taxpayers.
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Comments to CMS on Proposed Guidance for Coverage with Evidence Development
Eleven Schaeffer fellows cosigned a comment letter to Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services providing recommendations on the proposed Coverage with Evidence Development Guidance.
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Seminar Series – Inma Hernandez
Inmaculada (Inma) Hernandez is a Professor with tenure at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. She has authored more than 100 scientific articles, including first-authored papers in JAMA, among other leading journals.Â
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Disadvantaging Rivals: Vertical Integration in the Pharmaceutical Market
Premiums of Part D beneficiaries enrolled in a plan that is vertically integrated with a PBM increased from 30% to 80% between 2010 and 2018.
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Insulin Fills by Medicare Enrollees and Out-of-Pocket Caps Under the Inflation Reduction Act
This study uses data from IQVIA’s National Prescription Audit to assess the association of the Inflation Reduction Act’s cap on cost sharing with insulin fills.
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Inflation Reduction Act’s Cap on Insulin Out-of-Pocket Costs Boosts Prescription Fills
Published in JAMA, the findings from USC and University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers suggest the policy cut the number of Medicare enrollees who weren’t filling insulin because of cost.
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Blame Capitalism? Why Hundreds of Decades-Old Yet Vital Drugs Are Nearly Impossible to Find
The shortages, which have been going on for years, have typically affected only low-cost generics rather than profitable brand-name drugs.
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Cancer Drug Trastuzumab And Its Biosimilars Compete On Price For Market Share
Using Medicare claims, Schaeffer experts documented US prescribing patterns for originator biologic trastuzumab (Herceptin), a targeted cancer therapy, and five biosimilar entrants since 2019.
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