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Please Celebrate Festivus With Cost Curve by Airing Your Grievances

Please Celebrate Festivus With Cost Curve by Airing Your Grievances

And Pfizer’s take on the pharm-to-table opportunity in obesity: ‘Multiples of what we were expecting’

Brian Reid
Brian Reid
Dec 17, 2025
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Arnold Ventures' 2024 Grant Awards Are Now Public. Here’s What Those Dollars Say About the Group's Goals

Arnold Ventures' 2024 Grant Awards Are Now Public. Here’s What Those Dollars Say About the Group's Goals

And Pfizer offers few new details on how the MFN deal will impact the company’s bottom line next year

Brian Reid
Brian Reid
Dec 16, 2025
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Big Companies Are Far Less Likely to Disclose Drug Prices Than Smaller Ones, New Study Shows

Big Companies Are Far Less Likely to Disclose Drug Prices Than Smaller Ones, New Study Shows

My research with Tufts CEVR on drug-price announcements, published today in AJMC, assessed 150 meds over three years

Brian Reid
Brian Reid
Dec 15, 2025
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Sales at 340B Prices Continue to Skyrocket -- Jumping to More than $81 Billion -- Even as Questions Remain About Where the Money Goes

Sales at 340B Prices Continue to Skyrocket -- Jumping to More than $81 Billion -- Even as Questions Remain About Where the Money Goes

And a Tufts CEVR analysis suggests that cost-effectiveness is not playing a meaningful role in government price-setting efforts

Brian Reid
Brian Reid
Dec 12, 2025
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A New Tracker for Watching Meds That Might See Prices Slashed

A New Tracker for Watching Meds That Might See Prices Slashed

And an evolving list of all of the pricing and policy fun to be had between now and Christmas

Brian Reid
Brian Reid
Dec 10, 2025
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Why IRA ‘Negotiations’ and MFN Dealmaking Led to Such Different Prices for Ozempic and Wegovy

Why IRA ‘Negotiations’ and MFN Dealmaking Led to Such Different Prices for Ozempic and Wegovy

And the 340B rebate model debate is coming to Cost Curve’s home turf: Portland

Brian Reid
Brian Reid
Dec 9, 2025
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Reimbursement for Hep B Shots Should Remain Stable Even as CDC Panel Undermines the Vaccine

Reimbursement for Hep B Shots Should Remain Stable Even as CDC Panel Undermines the Vaccine

And a STAT analysis suggests that major health insurers are seeing med spending skyrocket, but a closer look at the data raises questions

Brian Reid
Brian Reid
Dec 8, 2025
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A New Health Affairs Forefront Piece Seeks to Reset the ‘Pharm-to-Table’ Conversation

A New Health Affairs Forefront Piece Seeks to Reset the ‘Pharm-to-Table’ Conversation

And lawmaker talk of PBM reform has returned. Will action follow?

Brian Reid
Brian Reid
Dec 5, 2025
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Companies and Nations Respond to the U.S.-U.K. Agreement to Eliminate Tariffs, Boost Drug Prices

Companies and Nations Respond to the U.S.-U.K. Agreement to Eliminate Tariffs, Boost Drug Prices

And doing the math on 340B rebate models suggests that pharma’s new approach to paying 340B discounts shouldn’t harm providers

Brian Reid
Brian Reid
Dec 4, 2025
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