{"id":4322,"date":"2016-09-17T04:29:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T08:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2016-09-16T08:32:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:32:22","slug":"lawmakers-ask-hhs-to-probe-the-medicaid-drug-rebate-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4322","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers ask HHS to probe the Medicaid drug rebate program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">I<\/span>n the wake of the controversy over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/08\/29\/generic-epipen-mylan\/\" target=\"_blank\">EpiPen pricing,<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> a group of lawmakers is demanding a probe into the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, which requires drug makers to pay rebates in exchange for having their products covered. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/09\/15\/hhs-probe-medicaid-drug-rebate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 Ed Silverman for STAT) In the wake of the controversy over EpiPen pricing,1 a group of lawmakers is demanding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","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=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}