Senators call on CMS to finalize pharmacy fee reforms to save seniors $21B in out-of-pocket expenses
A bipartisan group of 30 US senators from both sides of the aisle sent a letter earlier this week to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, urging her to finalize certain pharmacy fee reforms that could significantly save seniors in out-of-pocket expenses.
As so-called direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) fees have grown by more than 107,000% in a decade, the senators are calling on CMS to finalize a proposed rule that would tweak DIR fees in a way to “reduce seniors’ out-of-pocket prescription drug costs by $21.3 billion over 10 years.”
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