‘Sleeper Issue:’ How Part B Drugs May Be Impacted by Medicare Part D Redesign

  • Feb 15, 2024

    Physician-administered drugs could catch some windfall due to the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Part D redesign.

    Much time and energy has been focused on thinking about how drug pricing, rebating and Part D plan design may shift due to changes set to finish taking effect in 2025 including new caps on enrollee out-of-pocket spend and more liability falling on plans rather than taxpayers.

    But a “sleeper issue here is what all of this is going to mean for Medicare Part B drugs,” said Avalere’s Kesley Lang on a January webinar on the health policy outlook for the new year.

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  • Sarah Karlin-Smith

    Sarah is a senior writer with Pink Sheet and has covered U.S. regulation and reimbursement policy for the biopharma industry since 2004, starting with the establishment of the Medicare Part D program. Since then, she has written extensively about developments in all major sectors of the U.S. insurance market (Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plans). She has covered key legislation affecting biopharma, including the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act which created Part D, health care reform under President Obama, and the Inflation Reduction Act. She has closely followed the increasing influence of pharmacy benefit managers and their use of formulary negotiations and rebates to control pricing. Cathy also has covered developments in health technology assessments and has monitored industry progress on novel drug contracting that reflects value-based pricing.

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