{"id":10674,"date":"2018-06-14T12:39:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T16:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10674"},"modified":"2018-06-14T12:39:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T16:39:36","slug":"hhs-says-it-may-be-time-to-eliminate-the-complex-system-of-drug-rebates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10674","title":{"rendered":"HHS says it may be time to eliminate the complex system of drug rebates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;\">U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is calling for \u201ca system without rebates.\u201d HHS secretary Azar told lawmakers that it may be time to eliminate the complex system of rebates that drug companies and pharmacy-benefit managers use to negotiate and set prices. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2018\/06\/12\/fda-clears-way-for-outcome-based-insurer-payments\/?kw=HHS%20secretary%20Azar%20calls%20for%20%27a%20system%20without%20rebates%27&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=BenefitsPRO&amp;cn=20180614&amp;src=EMC-Email&amp;pt=ConsumerDrivenPRO\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HHS-seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8242\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HHS-seal-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HHS-seal-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HHS-seal.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is calling for \u201ca system without rebates.\u201d HHS secretary Azar told lawmakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10675,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674\/revisions\/10675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}