Trump administration finalizing Medicare Part D MFN rule

The second shoe has dropped in the Trump administration’s effort to use CMS demonstration projects to impose “most favored nation” (MFN) pricing on Medicare drugs.

On Thursday, CMS submitted a proposed rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review that would create the Guarding U.S. Medicare Against Rising Drug Costs (GUARD) Model, a mandatory Medicare Part D demonstration to be implemented by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)...