Drug Pricing: CMS Seeing ‘Too Many Examples’ Of Excessive Increases
Executive Summary
Acting Administrator Slavitt says big prescription drug price increases are a widespread practice and controlling drug costs ‘is likely to be a big priority’ for next head of CMS.
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