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Weatherhead School's J.B. Silvers discusses new rule requiring drug companies to reveal prices in commercials

MEDIA | June 4, 2019
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

Will drug prices in TV ads really be transparent?

MarketWatchJ.B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance, discussed the impact of a new rule requiring drug companies to include the “list prices” in television commercials for all medicines covered by Medicare or Medicaid that cost $35 or more for a one-month supply or for a full course.