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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: Encore! EP216: How Medicare Part D Plans Became Addicted to Drug Rebates, With Chris Sloan From Avalere Health
Description: Alex Azar, who is the current Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary (until January 21 anyway), came out with a reboot of the proposal that effectively halts the practice of pharma manufacturers paying rebates to Part D plans. This reboot is supposed to go into effect on 1/1/2022. But this podcast is less about this may-or-may-not-actually-happen rule and is more about the actual impact of removing drug rebates within this unintuitively constructed health care system of ours. Should rebates go away, it's actually a big deal that fundamentally could upend the heretofore-not-transparent messy middle of drug pricing. I'll let...