Plus, the crossover event of the year: TrumpRx is driving traffic to Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs
And the White House budget proposal includes a huge boost in funding to oversee 340B
Plus the drug industry gets a big appeals court win in the ongoing battle to set rules around 340B contract pharmacies
And a price war of sorts is emerging as Arrowhead and Ionis prepare to enter a large CV disease market
And a new paper makes clear how quickly Chinese biopharma has risen
That’s notable, because, before yesterday, prices had not been publicly disclosed for a single med approved in 2026
And a legal case that seeks to close the 340B “STD loophole” kicks off
And a theory about the drip-drip-drip approach to putting medicines on TrumpRx
And that official, Chris Klomp, also said that the White House is working on getting drugmaker buy-in on MFN legislation
And looking at how TrumpRx prices compare to prices in the U.K. (plus Mark Cuban’s take on the site)
And the administration is still trying to get Congress to act on MFN legislation, but there’s not much evidence that the effort is working
And new insights on past, present, and future Medicare price “negotiations”
And three more medicines -- Novartis’ Mayzent, Rydapt, and Tabrecta -- have been added to TrumpRx
UCB releases its list- and net-price disclosures for 2025, making it the third company to show net prices continue to fall
But the details suggest that the Trump administration may struggle to get the effort off the ground
And Novo will book an extra $4 billion in revenue, citing confidence that its 340B contract pharmacy policies are safe from legal challenges
And the reality that MFN may mean poor access in Europe, not lower prices in the U.S., begins to sink in
And a new resource that makes plain the extent -- and variability -- of hospital markups on pharmaceuticals
And CMS ‘explanations’ for Medicare drug pricing suggest drugmakers and CMS didn’t see eye-to-eye in half of all ‘negotiations’
And CMS extends the deadline for its MFN-in-Medicaid program in an effort to get small- and mid-size companies on board