Episode 3 of Supply Chain Signal examines the Aug. 31 MFN agreements with nine mid-size manufacturers, the GENEROUS Medicaid model and whether pricing, trade and manufacturing policy now add up to a new pharma operating model.
Rebate delays could force 340B hospitals to pay upfront and wait months for credit, distorting drug spend on the books. Valerie Bandy, PharmD, of Tecsys explains the fallout.
In this week's Pharma Pulse, Arkansas independent pharmacies bring an underpayment suit against Express Scripts, Novo Nordisk taps Anthropic for AI-driven drug discovery, and Sanofi, UCB and Opella join AstraZeneca on a supply chain heat decarbonization program.
In this week's Pharma Pulse, PhRMA sues to block CMS's GLOBE pricing model, WFS opens a temperature-controlled cargo terminal in Lyon and Bayer commits $2.2 billion to a new Ohio manufacturing site.