Advisory Board January 21, 2025
President Donald Trump on Monday issued a slew of executive orders, a number of which have potential healthcare implications. Here’s what you need to know.
Drug pricing
Trump rescinded an executive order issued by former President Joe Biden that had prompted the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to develop three drug pricing experiments.
The first experiment aimed to help state Medicaid programs pay for cell and gene therapies that are effective but expensive by creating multi-state purchasing agreements. These agreements would allow states to not pay for the drugs if they weren’t effective. CMMI had started the enrollment process of the pilot program, and the application is supposed to be open through Feb. 28.
The second experiment would...
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