Becker's Healthcare February 13, 2025
President Donald Trump has signed 60 executive orders since taking office Jan. 20, including numerous that will shape healthcare policy at local, national and global levels.
Here’s a summary of key healthcare-related executive orders and actions affecting hospitals and the broader U.S. healthcare system. A handful, described below, stand to affect hospitals most directly.
Recent EOs affecting hospitals
1. Drug pricing. A Jan. 20 executive order rescinded former President Joe Biden’s previous order to lower prescription drug costs for Medicare and Medicaid patients. The original order had instructed the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to develop and test three experimental drug pricing models, including a proposal to cap Medicare patients’ monthly out-of-pocket costs for certain generic drugs...
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