tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 6

Pharmaceuticals: Leavitt: Let Market, Not HHS, Set Medicare Rx Prices

Congressional leaders press for answers on who should wrangle with big pharmaMichael Leavitt, President George Bush's nominee to replace Tommy Thompson as Secretary of Health and Human Services, does not want the power to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries.Congress' failure to give the Secretary this power has proven to be one of the most controversial aspects of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, which created a prescription drug benefit in Medicare. Critics have charged that legislators gave in to the pharmaceutical industry, which was worried that the Secretary could use Medicare's huge pool...

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