Massachusetts Bill Directs “Feasibility” Study Of State-Negotiated Drug Pricing
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Massachusetts’ state legislature passes a bill aimed at containing health care costs, including a study of the potential for the state to negotiate drug prices for all of its citizens. Because Massachusetts’ 2009 health care coverage expansion law served as a model for the Affordable Care Act, development of the state’s new bill is being watched by stakeholders as a potential model for cost containment elsewhere.