{"id":26214,"date":"2026-07-07T08:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26214"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:23:22","slug":"addressing-unintended-consequences-of-medicare-drug-pricing-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26214","title":{"rendered":"Addressing &#8220;Unintended Consequences&#8221; of Medicare Drug Pricing Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lowering drug costs for older adults is, of course, a paramount Medicare goal, especially for an aging population. Recent changes to Medicare drug pricing policies have altered the path to that goal, specifically in the reimbursement rates available to private physician offices and community clinics. When these reimbursement rates impose an excessive cost on the acquisition, storage, and administration of certain key, life-saving drugs, their availability to a vulnerable population is threatened, say the primary sponsors of the Protecting Patient Access to Cancer and Complex Therapies Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/4299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H.R. 4299<\/a>). With an objective of protecting &#8220;&#8230;patient access to lifesaving treatments and hold(ing) physicians harmless, while saving the Medicare program $3.3 billion over 10 years,&#8221; Reps. Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC) and Adam Gray (D-CA), aim to avoid a situation in which administration of life-saving medications becomes financially unsustainable. Read more on this topic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicaleconomics.com\/view\/medicare-is-pushing-life-saving-drugs-out-of-physician-offices-and-senior-patients-will-suffer\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.medicaleconomics.com\/view\/medicare-is-pushing-life-saving-drugs-out-of-physician-offices-and-senior-patients-will-suffer\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lowering drug costs for older adults is, of course, a paramount Medicare goal, especially for an aging population. Recent changes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,32,6,15],"tags":[2104,2105,61],"class_list":["post-26214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aging","category-cms","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-crug-pricing","tag-hr-4299","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26214","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26217,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26214\/revisions\/26217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}