The Copay is Right: The Tipline for 29 August 2023

Bob Barker’s legendary The Price Is Right would never have spanned 35 years had the show dealt with pharmaceutical prices instead of brick-and-mortar items. How can the public be expected to play along at home when rebates, the Hatch-Waxman Act, PBMs and insurance providers are muddying the field? In today’s Tipline, the Federal Trade Commission loses a pay-for-delay case and it may be close to settling its first effort to block a pharmaceutical merger in 14 years.