Federal Drug Price Negotiation : Implications for Medicare Part D.

Format:

Book

Government document

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition.

Drugs.

Public contracts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (22 pages, digital, PDF file)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2007.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Describes how Federal Government negotiates drug prices under existing public programs, presents arguments for and against such activities, and analyzes implications for pharmaceutical industry, Medicare beneficiaries, and others if similar Federal involvement were to occur for the Medicare Part D program under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act. Summarizes recent legislative activity.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

CRS Report.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Federal Drug Price Negotiation

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