{"id":6216,"date":"2025-06-06T20:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=6216"},"modified":"2025-06-06T20:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:21:12","slug":"key-readings-to-help-you-evaluate-a-major-change-to-us-drug-pricing-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=6216","title":{"rendered":"Key readings to help you evaluate a major change to US drug pricing policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is the topic from my <a href=\"https:\/\/becarispublishing.com\/digital-content\/blog-post\/perspectives-healthcare-economist-most-favored-nation-key-readings-help-you-evaluate\">article out today at <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/becarispublishing.com\/digital-content\/blog-post\/perspectives-healthcare-economist-most-favored-nation-key-readings-help-you-evaluate\">The Evidence Base<\/a><\/em>.  An excerpt is below: <\/p>\n<p> On May 12, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order calling for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/05\/delivering-most-favored-nation-prescription-drug-pricing-to-american-patients\/\">\u201cmost favored nation\u201d (MFN) drug pricing<\/a> in the US. Key questions you may have include: <br \/>  What is MFN pricing?\u00a0 <br \/>  Which countries will be included in the MFN basket? <br \/>  How much lower are drug prices ex-US vs US? <br \/> How should I evaluate MFN? What is the overall goal of drug pricing?\u00a0 <br \/> Why do drug prices vary by country? Is this a good thing?\u00a0<br \/> What has happened when other countries have implemented international reference pricing?\u00a0 <br \/>Let\u2019s answer each of these questions one by one. I\u2019ve included some key readings to help you come up to speed quickly on this issue.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>To find my responses to each of these questions (with key additional readings) head over to the full article on <em>The Evidence Base<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/becarispublishing.com\/digital-content\/blog-post\/perspectives-healthcare-economist-most-favored-nation-key-readings-help-you-evaluate\">here.<\/a>  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the topic from my article out today at The Evidence Base. An excerpt is below: On May 12, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order calling for\u00a0\u201cmost favored nation\u201d (MFN) drug pricing in the US. Key questions you may have include: What is MFN pricing?\u00a0 Which countries will be included in the MFN&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}