Our Drug Pricing and Market Access team tracks recent developments in healthcare reform, the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, the 340B Program, Medicare, and state law....more
President Trump’s executive orders and legislative proposals from Congress leverage FDA to help lower drug prices, address anti-competitive practices, and accelerate generic drug approvals....more
Some commentators are expecting that further details regarding the so-called most favored nation (MFN) pricing policy will be released in the coming days, while other sources indicate that no further information beyond a...more
Takeaways- • Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives attempt to deliver on President Trump’s campaign promises in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (BBB or the Act), which passed the House by a razor-thin margin of...more
On May 20, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released further details on its plan to implement President Trump’s May 12 executive order aimed at lowering drug prices by requiring pharmaceutical companies to...more
At a Glance - MFN Pricing Returns: The EO revives effort to link U.S. drug prices to those in peer countries, calling for voluntary industry action. Aggressive Action on the Table: If progress on voluntary price cuts...more
As part of a broader resurgence in pharmaceutical pricing reform and manufacturing policies in 2025, President Donald Trump and bipartisan congressional leaders have introduced contemporaneous proposals to lower prescription...more
President Trump’s highly publicized executive order 14297, titled “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients,” targets the discrepancy in drug pricing in the United States compared with...more
President Donald Trump on May 12, 2025, issued an executive order (EO) titled "Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients" and an accompanying Fact Sheet, "President Donald J. Trump...more
On May 12, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order aimed at lowering prescription drug prices titled “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients.” Generally, the order directs...more
On May 12, 2025, President Trump signed the most recent Executive Order on drug pricing, Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients. ...more
On July 9, 2021, President Biden enacted a sweeping executive order creating a “whole‑of-government competition policy.” Morrison & Foerster outlined the administration’s policy in a recent client alert that provides a...more
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the US$1.9 trillion stimulus package expected to be passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden by March 14, 2021, contains the first drug pricing legislative action being...more
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an interim final rule with comment period on November 27, 2020, that attempted to initiate a new drug-pricing methodology on separately-payable Medicare Part B drugs...more
On 23 December 2020, Judge Catherine Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland granted the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) a 14-day nationwide temporary restraining order,...more
On September 13, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order (the “Executive Order”) directing the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to issue regulations instituting two most-favored-nations (“MFN”) payment...more
On November 27, 2020, CMS published its Most Favored Nation (MFN) Model Interim Final Rule (IFR) that seeks to lower the amount paid for 50 high-cost Medicare Part B drugs to the lowest price that drug manufacturers receive...more
The Trump Administration recently announced two final rules that implement policy objectives to lower drug prices by tying certain Medicare Part B payments to prices paid by other countries and by replacing an anti-kickback...more
Tuesday, 24 November 2020 - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to expand the role of the federal government in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, build on the Affordable Care Act, and continue drug...more
On November 20, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule (IFR) with comment period implementing a mandatory “Most Favored Nation” demonstration model (MFN Model) to test...more
On Sunday, September 13, 2020, President Trump signed an Executive Order, the next in a series of Executive Orders targeting the pharmaceutical industry, which aims to lower prescription drug prices in the United States (the...more
On September 13, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order seeking to establish most favored nation ("MFN") pricing for Medicare drug payments. The Trump Administration's Order, 'Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America...more