STAT+: Pharmalittle: Lawmakers accuse Pfizer of ‘pure greed’ over Covid vaccine price hike; Takeda to spend $4 billion on experimental pill
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The Biden administration signaled it will require health plans on federal exchanges to cover more of the costs of generic drugs, a small tweak that nevertheless has industry groups divided on how best to manage drug costs, STAT reports. The proposal, laid out in a regulation, would direct plans offered through the Affordable Care Act marketplace to put all generic drugs in their lowest cost-sharing tier, which typically translates to little to no out-of-pocket spending for patients. While that category is referred to as the generic drug tier, an increasing number of generics are not included in the preferred list and instead sent to higher, “non-preferred” coverage tiers.
