{"id":11593,"date":"2018-09-25T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T12:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11593"},"modified":"2018-09-25T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T12:14:12","slug":"congress-wont-include-phrma-backed-medicare-change-in-opioids-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11593","title":{"rendered":"Congress won\u2019t include PhRMA-backed Medicare change in opioids package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Nicholas Florko and Lev Facher for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The latest version of a bill to address the opioid crisis will not include an unrelated,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/09\/20\/phrma-gop-creates-donut-hole\/\">drug industry-backed provision<\/a> that would relieve drug companies of some of their responsibility for certain Medicare drug costs, multiple lobbyists with knowledge of the bill told STAT. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/09\/24\/congress-opioids-phrma-backed-change\/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=4bbe4521fb-MR_COPY_03&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-4bbe4521fb-149624405\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" 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>(By Nicholas Florko and Lev Facher for STAT) WASHINGTON \u2014 The latest version of a bill to address the opioid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593","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=11593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11594,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions\/11594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}