Rebates Redux: Medicare Drug Rebates Next?
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
Drug prices have lost their headline appeal. That has got to be a relief to pharma execs who have pipeline problems and patent expirations to deal with and don't need to be worried about bad publicity egging on Congress to price-control schemes. But there are new threats to drug prices brewing - and one of them is industry's old nemesis: government rebates.
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