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The Drug Rebate Equalization Act of 2009 (DRE), introduced in the 111th United States Congress by Representative Bart Stupak as H.R. 904, and in the Senate by Senator Jeff Bingaman as S. 547, sought to equalize the treatment of prescription drug discounts between Medicaid managed care and Medicaid fee-for-service.
It required pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide rebates for medication purchases, based on sales to Medicaid beneficiaries, as a condition of having their products covered by Medicaid. [3] The amount of the rebates paid to the states were based on a "best price" calculation that did not take into account the discounted prices that ...
The report says about 44% of state residents — including 60% of those in New York City — are covered by Medicaid or the Essential Plan, seven points above any other state. The programs take up ...
Misclassification under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program: EpiPen (epinephrine) False Claims Act: 2006 Schering-Plough [21] $435 million Off-label promotion, kickbacks, Medicare fraud Temodar, Intron A, K-Dur, Claritin RediTabs: False Claims Act, FDCA 2004 [22] Pfizer $430 million Off-label promotion Neurontin: False Claims Act, FDCA 2008 ...
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a Nevada Democrat, noted Republicans in Congress have worked to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, the 2022 federal law that empowered Medicare to negotiate drug ...
Yet there are gaps in how the billions of taxpayer-supported funding for Medicaid programs in New York addresses maternal health needs. ... About 17% of women ages 18 to 49 on Medicaid who needed ...
The Medicaid drug rebate for brand name drugs, paid by drug manufacturers to the states, is increased to 23.1% (except for the rebate for clotting factors and drugs approved exclusively for pediatric use, which increases to 17.1%), and the rebate is extended to Medicaid managed care plans; the Medicaid rebate for non-innovator, multiple source ...
Newly elected Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) enacts the Medicaid expansion shortly after taking office. New Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) announces his plan for a conservative remake of his state’s Medicaid program, and threatens to rescind the expansion if the Obama administration doesn’t approve it. Nov. 2016