{"id":23785,"date":"2024-02-12T22:28:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T04:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=23785"},"modified":"2024-02-12T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T04:29:00","slug":"federal-judge-tosses-phrma-lawsuit-challenging-medicare-drug-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=23785","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge tosses PhRMA lawsuit challenging Medicare drug negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A Texas federal judge on Monday&nbsp;dismissed a lawsuit challenging the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/joe-biden\/\"><u>Biden\u2002<\/u><\/a>administration\u2019s Medicare drug price negotiations filed by the pharmaceutical industry lobbying group PhRMA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The decision marks a small victory for the Biden administration, as it\u2019s the first time a court has outright dismissed a challenge to Medicare\u2019s new price negotiation powers. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There are eight other lawsuits filed by drug companies and other plaintiffs, and the legal fight could stretch for years. The federal government sent out its initial offer to drug companies earlier this month, and while the negotiations will end in August, the prices won\u2019t take effect until 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Judge David Alan Ezra in the Western District of Texas granted the Biden administration\u2019s request to dismiss the lawsuit, ruling that the plaintiffs lacked standing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">PhRMA was joined in the lawsuit by the National Infusion Center Association (NICA) and the Global Colon Cancer Association, but Ezra dismissed NICA from the case because he said the court lacked jurisdiction. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As NCIA was the only plaintiff that resided in Texas, the entire case was dismissed. However, it was dismissed without prejudice and could be brought up again. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe are disappointed with the court\u2019s decision, which does not address the merits of our lawsuit, and we are weighing our next legal steps,\u201d PhRMA spokesperson Nicole Longo said in a statement to The Hill. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">PhRMA represents some of the largest drug companies in the world. The group sued the administration in June, arguing Medicare negotiation is unconstitutional and violated drug companies\u2019 due process. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4464229-federal-judge-tosses-phrma-lawsuit-challenging-medicare-drug-negotiations\/\">Thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas federal judge on Monday&nbsp;dismissed a lawsuit challenging the&nbsp;Biden\u2002administration\u2019s Medicare drug price negotiations filed by the pharmaceutical industry lobbying group PhRMA.&nbsp; The decision marks a small victory for the Biden administration, as it\u2019s the first time a court has outright dismissed a challenge to Medicare\u2019s new price negotiation powers. &nbsp; There are eight other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10459,1745,26595,22010],"class_list":["post-23785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-biden-administration","tag-lawsuits","tag-medicare-drugs","tag-price-negotiations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23787,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23785\/revisions\/23787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}