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Drug Pricing Reform

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Drug-pricing pressure is surfacing most clearly through utilization and affordability dynamics rather than a new CMS/HHS action in the last 24 hours: employers are facing a reported 9% cost surge driven by GLP-1 uptake and specialty pharmacy spend, forcing payers, ACO partners, and primary-care models to tighten benefit design, prescribing pathways, and outcomes-based management for cardiometabolic populations (MedCity News). At the same time, Medicare’s spending on new Alzheimer’s drugs is coming in well below expectations because of slow adoption, complex administration, and uncertain benefit.

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