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California’s latest effort at a drug price transparency bill, SB 17, moved one step closer to becoming law on Tuesday when it passed the State Senate 26-10.  The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Ed Hernandez, would require the manufacturers of prescription drugs experiencing large increases in WAC to give purchasers 90 days’ advance notice of the increase, and report detailed information to the state Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD). … More

One of the more aggressive pieces of price transparency legislation introduced this year is currently before the Appropriations Committee in the California State Senate.  Under SB17, manufacturers of drugs that have experienced three-year increases in WAC greater than either 10% (for drugs with WAC over the Medicare Part D specialty drug threshold) or 25% (for drugs with WAC under the threshold) would be required to give 90 days’ advance notice of the increase to purchasers (including state purchasers,… More

The end of the legislative session in Olympia on April 23 did not see the enactment of what had once been among the fastest-moving pieces of drug pricing transparency legislation in the country.  After passing the House of Representatives in a close 52-46 vote, HB 1541 was unable to escape from the Senate Committee on Health Care.

HB 1541 would have required manufacturers of prescription drugs that increase in price by 1) the lesser of 10% or $10,000 over a 12-month period;… More