Senate Finance Panel’s New Legislative Staffer Kaltenboeck Likes QALYs For Valuing Drugs
Executive Summary
Anna Kaltenboeck joins the committee from Memorial Sloan Kettering’s health policy group, which has been an active participant in US drug pricing reform policy development and a critic of the biopharma industry, often through public commentary by its director, Peter Bach.
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