Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
Dec. 30, 2020
Judge blocks nationwide US policy to lower drug prices
Rejecting claims that there’s an urgent need to slash drug costs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled the U.S. government improperly used the crisis as a guise to exceed its authority in setting regulatory policy.
A federal judge in San Francisco blocked implementation of a U.S. government policy that would have lowered drug prices because he found it violates procedural requirements for enacting new rules.
Rejecting claims that there's an urgent need to slash drug costs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled Monday the U.S. government improperly ...
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