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ICER publishes research protocol for assessing price increases of prescription drugs in California
16 March 2022 - Final assessment to be published on 13 October; drugs to be evaluated are those identified through California’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2022
ICER to develop a California state unsupported price increase report funded by the California Health Care Foundation
3 March 2022 - Expanded funding supports the development of two annual “Unsupported Price Increase” reports specific to drugs identified through ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Feb 2022
Universal health care bill fails to pass in California
1 February 2022 - A bill that would have created the nation's only universal health care system has failed to pass ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Oct 2020
California plans to review coronavirus vaccine independently
19 October 2020 - California is planning to review federally approved coronavirus vaccines independently before distributing it to residents, Governor ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Sep 2020
California to use market power in bid to lower prescription drug costs
28 September 2020 - California will attempt to use its massive market power to increase the availability and lower the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Sep 2020
California may be the first state to develop its own generic drugs
1 September 2020 - California is poised to become the first state to develop its own line of generic drugs, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Apr 2020
California fines more than a dozen drug makers for not providing drug pricing data
28 April 2020 - Over the past six months, California state authorities fined more than a dozen drug makers a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2020
California plan would upend drug prices, though obstacles abound
9 January 2020 - Newsom wants to create state-run wholesaler, pool buying power. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2020
California eyes selling its own brand of generic prescription drugs to battle high costs
9 January 2020 - California would become the first state to sell its own brand of generic prescription drugs in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jan 2020
Generic makers will appeal ruling that allows California to proceed with law banning pay-to-delay deals
3 January 2020 - A federal judge dealt the pharmaceutical industry a setback by declining to block a new California ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2019
California’s new transparency law shows staggering rise in wholesale drug prices
11 October 2019 - Drug makers fought hard against California’s groundbreaking drug price transparency law, passed in 2017. Now, state ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Oct 2019
California is first US state to ban pay-for-delay deals
8 October 2019 - California has become the first US state to ban the pharma industry practice of paying rivals ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2019
HIV prevention drugs will be available without a prescription in California
7 October 2019 - California will expand access to HIV prevention drugs by allowing pharmacies to offer the medications without ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 May 2019
San Francisco, Santa Clara, Alameda counties join Governor Newsom to lower drug prices
16 May 2019 - San Francisco, Santa Clara and Alameda counties joined on Thursday Governor Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plan to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jan 2019
New California governor tackles drug prices in first act
8 January 2019 - Hours into his new job, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Monday that could ...