{"id":16351,"date":"2020-06-29T10:55:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T14:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16351"},"modified":"2020-06-29T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T14:55:33","slug":"pfizer-sues-hhs-over-medicare-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16351","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer sues HHS over Medicare rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Katie Adams for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer\u00a0filed a lawsuit June 26\u00a0accusing HHS of blocking it from providing financial aid to Medicare beneficiaries for its two heart disease drugs.<\/p>\n<p>According to the court document, HHS sees Pfizer&#8217;s efforts to help Medicare beneficiaries afford its Vyndaqel and Vyndamax drugs to be an illegal kickback scheme. Pfizer alleged HHS&#8217; regulatory action violated its constitutional rights to free speech and due process.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/pfizer-sues-hhs-over-medicare-rules.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8964\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Katie Adams for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Pfizer\u00a0filed a lawsuit June 26\u00a0accusing HHS of blocking it from providing financial aid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351","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=16351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16352,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions\/16352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}