[P]The House bill would authorize the secretary of health and human services to negotiate drug prices in Medicare and Medicaid. Some authoritative analysts doubt that the secretary would get better deals than private insurers already get. We believe negotiation could work. It does in other countrie...
The measure originally was included in legislation that would allow the government to negotiate drug prices for the Medicare drug benefit, which has stalled in Congress, but the CE research proposal is likely to resurface in other bills. SUPPORT FOR CE CENTER The Medicare Payment Advisory ...
“With a true HSA transfer, the key there is it’s a requester initiating to have the funds transferred directly from one HSA custodian to another, so those funds will never touch your hands,” says Amy Donlin, senior solution analyst, benefits, WEX....
In fact, Chatterji (2009) reports that the superior performance of spinouts compared with other entrants is primarily driven by knowledge related to regulatory matters (e.g., new drug approval process and the Medicare system) and marketing capabilities (e.g., identifying new market opportunities)...