Baker backs rate-setting for high-cost drugs
Proposal gives roles to Health Policy Commission, AG
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Bruce Mohl
Charlie Baker, Health Care
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THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION is seeking legislative authority for MassHealth to negotiate prices directly with the manufacturers of high-cost drugs that have little or no competition and, if that effort fails to produce savings, to put the companies through a rate-setting process followed by regulatory and legal penalties if the firm fails to charge the target(...)