WASHINGTON — Medicare laid out Wednesday within the best element but the way it will select which drug costs it can negotiate in its brand-new program, and the way it will work out what the federal government’s opening provide shall be.
Democrats outlined some components of the method within the Inflation Discount Act that handed Congress final August, however the particulars of how medicine shall be chosen and what elements shall be thought of have been imprecise till now. Although the precise negotiated costs received’t take impact for years, Medicare officers should announce the primary 10 medicine they’ll negotiate over by Sept. 1.
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