{"id":10978,"date":"2018-07-20T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10978"},"modified":"2018-07-19T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T18:32:17","slug":"new-proposal-would-remove-safe-harbor-protections-for-drug-rebates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10978","title":{"rendered":"New proposal would remove safe-harbor protections for drug rebates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Office of Management and Budget was sent a proposed regulation that would make changes to federal safe harbor protections that have allowed drug rebates. Although the details of the proposal weren\u2019t available, the title of the proposal \u201cRemoval of Safe Harbor Protection for Rebates to Plans or PBMs Involving Prescription Pharmaceuticals and Creation of New Safe Harbor Protection\u201d speaks for itself. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2018\/07\/19\/68018\/?kw=New%20proposal%20would%20remove%20safe-harbor%20protections%20for%20drug%20rebates&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=BenefitsPRO&amp;cn=20180719&amp;src=EMC-Email&amp;pt=NewsAlert\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10021\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" 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>The Office of Management and Budget was sent a proposed regulation that would make changes to federal safe harbor protections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978","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=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10979,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions\/10979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}