Tag Archives: Medicare

Government Crackdown on the C-Suite

By Walter Armstrong | Published: June 2, 2010
Over the past decade, the drug industry has paid tens of billions of dollars to settle state and federal lawsuits involving the False Claims Act—defrauding Medicare and Medicaid, promoting drugs for unapproved uses, paying kickbacks to doctors and pharmacies, and the like. Stories about off-label promotion of drugs with serious adverse effects and no proven [...]
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Pharma Cheers Health Reform Legislation

By Jill Wechsler | Published: March 22, 2010
Image by SEIU International via Flickr After months of increasingly rancorous debate, the House finally approved legislation March 21 that makes significant changes in the nation’s health care system. The Senate is slated to approve the House-passed changes to its original reform bill shortly. Of most importance to pharmaceutical companies, the legislation promises to significantly expand the [...]
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Obama Reveals Healthcare Reform Plan

By Jill Wechsler | Published: February 22, 2010
Image via Wikipedia The health reform proposal unveiled by the White House on Feb. 22, 2010 retains a number of provisions that directly affect drug coverage and industry revenues. The plan highlights that it will close the Medicare drug benefit “doughnut hole” by 2020 to make drugs more affordable to the elderly. Seniors will get some [...]
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Will Healthcare Reform Pay Off?

By George Koroneos | Published: August 20, 2009
Written by Jordan Melnick Members of Congress are in for a hard landing when they get back from recess in early September. After four weeks at home in their districts, the debate will heat up again as they resume the arduous process of crafting the biggest piece of President Obama’s domestic agenda. With the president demanding [...]
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