{"id":1544747,"date":"2022-07-08T14:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T18:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1544747"},"modified":"2022-07-08T14:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T18:34:32","slug":"desantis-issues-drug-transparency-order-as-biden-administration-drags-its-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-issues-drug-transparency-order-as-biden-administration-drags-its-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Issues Drug Transparency Order As Biden Administration Drags Its Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-issues-drug-transparency-order-as-biden-administration-drags-its-feet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1544747&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Responding to the Biden administration\u2019s lassitude in approving Florida\u2019s Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program, on Friday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order to ensure transparency in prescription costs for Floridians.<\/p>\n<p>The order targets pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), who manage prescription drug benefits for insurance companies, by directing Florida state agencies to enact regulations preventing spread pricing and reimbursement clawbacks, which DeSantis calls \u201cdeceptive.\u201d Spread pricing reimburses pharmacies for a price different from what the PBM charges the health plan, thus gaining the PBM a profit; clawbacks exist when a PBM charges a direct and indirect remuneration fee (DIR) to gain additional profit after the sale of the drug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the areas we\u2019ve been focused on, really since I became governor, in terms of high prices that are biting Floridians is prescription drug costs,\u201d DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/politics\/gov-desantis-ahca-head-to-speak-in-cape-coral\/amp\/\">said<\/a> on Friday. \u201cWhat can we do at a state level, even though most of this is driven by Washington. What could we do to potentially make an impact on prescription drug prices for Florida?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the same drugs that they sell in the United States, they\u2019re just a lot cheaper because they have different policies. In the U.S., we pay basically for the rest of the world to have cheaper drugs,\u201d DeSantis continued. \u201cThat\u2019s because the pharmaceutical industry is very powerful, there\u2019s a lot of different reasons for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor far too long leaders have chosen the path of inaction, rather than action, and fallen victim to a pharmaceutical system driven by drug companies rather than consumers,\u201d Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Simone Marstiller added. \u201cFortunately, Governor DeSantis leads with principle, always putting Floridians first and today\u2019s actions will further this commitment by providing insight into the FDA\u2019s review process and all agency health care contracts through the end of the decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Prescription Drug Importation program has been waiting for approval from Biden\u2019s Food And Drug Administration (FDA) for roughly 600 days. DeSantis also announced that the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022.07.06-Florida-FOIA-Requert-to-FDA-Expedited-Processing-Requested.pdf\">filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request<\/a>\u00a0to find out what is taking so long.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe they just don\u2019t want to give Florida a win,\u201d DeSantis declared.<\/p>\n<p>As far back as May 2021, DeSantis was taking notice of the Biden administration dragging its feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told that if it wasn\u2019t denied last week that we should assume it\u2019s going to be approved but we want to get that final approval because once we do, all this stuff goes in motion,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re standing here in an empty warehouse with our partners ready to begin final implementation to safely import these FDA-approved drugs into Florida at cheaper prices. It\u2019s been under review enough. We have followed every regulation, we\u2019ve met every requirement we were asked to meet and we want now to be able to get this final approval so we can finally move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis executive order requires accountability and transparency for pharmaceutical middlemen when doing business with the state, thereby reducing the upward pressure on prescription drug costs,\u201d DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2022\/07\/08\/governor-ron-desantis-takes-additional-actions-to-lower-prescription-drug-prices-for-floridians\/\">stated<\/a> on the flgov.com website announcing the new executive order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn response to federal government inaction, Governor DeSantis granted AHCA authority to negotiate prices for drugs ineligible for importation, such as insulin and epinephrine,\u201d the website noted. \u201cThis will reinforce the demand for Florida\u2019s Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program and provide another avenue to impact the price Floridians pay for prescription drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the Biden administration\u2019s lassitude in approving Florida\u2019s Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program, on Friday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order to ensure transparency in prescription costs for Floridians. 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