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Democrats want answers on cost-cutting prescription payment models abandoned by Trump

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31.01.2025

House Democrats want to know what the Trump administration plans to do after it rescinded a Biden-era executive order to study potential payment models for lowering prescription drug costs, looking to the acting heads of health agencies for answers.

A group of 51 House Democrats led by Rep. Shontel Brown (Ohio) wrote to Dorothy Fink, acting Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, and Jeff Wu, acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, asking for answers on how Trump's rescinding of Executive Order 14087 could affect the future of the prospective payment models developed by the Biden administration.

In 2022, former President Biden issued the executive order asking the HHS secretary to look into “new health........

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