Sticker Shock: The Debate Over Making Part D Pricing Data Public
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
A Congressional committee is sifting through drug rebate data from 12 big Medicare Part D plans. According to Congress' accounting arm, making the data public will cost the government as much as $10 billion dollars. But industry better be nervous about what happens next.
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