German Authorities Stonewall Pharma’s Transparency Demands
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Germany’s pharma industry is trying to force the government to reveal the decision-making process that led it to uphold the drug rebate and price freeze there, in the hope of avoiding fresh burdens in the future.
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