The White House said Medicaid programs in all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico now receive MFN prices, with nearly $65 billion in savings over a decade.
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.
DSCSA data exchange has matured into daily operations, but the coming NDC-12 shift and a national licensure standard add new work streams before old ones are fully settled.
Liberty Dewey of Cardinal Health breaks down the NDC-12 transition timeline, the four work streams driving it and why the biggest risk sits in trading partner handoffs.