How Will Medicare’s New Drug Rebate Law Work?
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration issued initial guidance yesterday on how it plans to implement the Medicare drug rebate program, which will affect doctors who administer drugs under Medicare Part B. The program, passed in August 2022 as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, requires manufacturers who raise their drugs’ prices faster than the rate […]
Getting Ready for the Next Plague
Yesterday I got an email from the Department of Health here in New York City announcing that they are spraying local bodies of water in Brooklyn starting this Thursday, to eliminate mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus. Man, it’s bad enough that we’re dealing with the Delta variant of COVID-19 — now we’ve got to remember […]