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WATCH: Biden delivers remarks on lowering prescription drug prices during visit to NIH

By Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

Hundreds of thousands of older Americans could pay less for some of their outpatient drug treatments beginning early next year, the Biden administration announced Thursday.

WATCH: Biden addresses health care costs and 1st drugs for Medicare price negotiations

By Tom Murphy, Amanda Seitz, Chris Megerian, Associated Press

The administration on Tuesday released a list of the 10 drugs for which prices will be negotiated directly with the manufacturer.

WATCH: Biden criticizes Florida Sen. Rubio for opposing prescription drug price caps

By Zeke Miller, Associated Press

President Joe Biden is using a visit to Florida to blast the Republican Party over proposals to undo prescription drug price caps and change Social Security and Medicare.

Your guide to Congress's new inflation-fighting package

By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

What started as a $4 trillion effort during President Joe Biden's first months in office to rebuild America's public infrastructure and family support systems has ended up a much slimmer, but not unsubstantial, compromise package.

FTC begins inquiry into pharmacy benefit manager practices

By Tom Murphy, Associated Press

The Federal Trade Commission is starting an inquiry into the operations of pharmacy benefit managers who control access to prescription drugs for millions of Americans.

Report from Senate Democrats says Postal Service changes delay prescription drugs

By Matthew Daly, Anthony Izaguirre, Associated Press

Delivery of mail-order prescription drugs was delayed significantly this summer after the new postmaster general ordered major changes in U.S. Postal Service operations.

California could be 1st state to sell its own prescription drugs

By Adam Beam, Associated Press

The Democratic governor wants the nation's most populous state to contract with generic drug companies to make medications on its behalf so it could sell them to its nearly 40 million residents.

How a growing trove of genetic data is informing medical breakthroughs

By Miles O'Brien

Individualized medicine, in which treatments are customized based on a patient’s unique DNA, is a rising field. Along with an ever-expanding genetic database, it offers tantalizing promise for solving some of medicine's most daunting challenges. But individualized medicine also carries…

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Senators urge Medicare to let seniors to change drug plans over inaccurate info

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

Medicare revamped its online plan finder this year and the senators said they've gotten numerous complaints from people in their states about inaccurate information on drug pricing and coverage.

Private insurers are improperly rejecting Medicare drug claims, watchdog finds

By Philip Moeller

Insurers initially rejected about 84 million prescription drug coverage claims made under Medicare Part D that should have been approved, a government report found.