Category: Legislative

A powerful U.S. House health subcommittee has invited U.S. health secretary Xavier Becerra to brief it next week about his department’s discretionary budget request for the coming fiscal year, and to discuss how they might collaborate on lowering drug prices

President Biden has left out of his American Families human-capital investment plan drug pricing reforms that Democratic leaders in Congress have pressed him hard to add. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.),

President Biden might exclude legislation to reduce what consumers and the federal government pay for prescription drugs from his American Families human and capital investment initiative, news organizations report this morning. Biden is scheduled to describe his infrastructure investment plan

UPDATE Thursday, April 22, 2021, 1:00 p.m. EDT—U.S. House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Chair Frank Pallone this morning introduced a significantly slimmed-down version of H.R. 3, the drug pricing bill that the House passed during the last session of Congress

UPDATED Monday, April 26, 2021, 9:00 a.m. EDT—President Biden signed the two bills into law on April 23.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed two bills last week intended to reduce the overall costs of medications by boosting competition for

Andrea Palm, President Biden’s pick to be the number two official at the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS), pledged during her U.S. Senate confirmation hearing this morning to make sure that the 340B program “is working as it

The bipartisan leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee and its Health Subcommittee wrote to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra this week asking him to enforce “full compliance” with the Trump administration’s hospital

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Thursday morning on President Biden’s nominations of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to run the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Andrea Palm to be U.S. Health and Human Services

Congressional Medicaid policy advisers voted Friday to recommend raising the Medicaid rebate percentage and inflation penalty on drugs that are quickly and conditionally approved to treat serious conditions that fill an unmet need.

If Congress follows the Medicaid and CHIP