HHS Leadership Upheaval Could Delay Initiatives Impacting Biopharma
Executive Summary
Secretary Price will be succeeded on an acting basis by HHS acting assistant secretary for health Donald Wright, and everything from development of the executive order on drug pricing to pending Medicare reimbursement experiments could see a pause as part of the transition.
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