{"id":11736,"date":"2018-10-12T11:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11736"},"modified":"2018-10-12T11:08:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:08:49","slug":"the-know-the-lowest-price-act-and-the-patients-right-to-know-drug-prices-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11736","title":{"rendered":"The Know the Lowest Price Act and the Patients&#8217; Right to Know Drug Prices Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">President Donald Trump signed the Know the Lowest Price Act and Patients\u2019 Right to Know Drug Prices Act, which will do away with pharmacy \u201cgag\u201d clauses, legislation which is meant to reduce opacity in pharmaceutical. PBMs sometimes use \u201cgag clauses to prevent pharmacist from informing patients if a prescription would be cheaper if purchased out-of-pocket rather than through their health insurance plan. <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2018\/10\/11\/trump-administration-gag-clause-compare-prescription-prices\/\">Read article here\u2026 <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>President Donald Trump signed the Know the Lowest Price Act and Patients\u2019 Right to Know Drug Prices Act, which will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736","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=11736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11737,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736\/revisions\/11737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}