Price Negotiation And The GLP1 Class: Trulicity Lucky To Be A BLA
Executive Summary
The inaugural class of drugs subject to the new US Medicare price negotiation process includes four antidiabetics. But none are from the biggest and fastest growing class – thanks to few technicalities in how the law works.
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