MA, Part D Plans Face New Premium Calculus With Drug Price Negotiation

The coming year is unlikely to see any major new policy developments come out of the split Congress, but health insurers and other stakeholders will have their hands full figuring out the implications of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) Medicare drug price negotiation policy, according to a Jan. 18 panel of Avalere Health experts. 

Last November’s election led to divided control of Congress, with Republicans in control of the House of Representatives and Democrats in control of the Senate. Given that, “the activity this year, over the next two years, is going to look quite a bit different than we saw in Congress from the previous two years,” said Matt Kazan, managing director at Avalere.