HHS says pricing targets identified for drug manufacturers to meet ‘most favored nation’ requirements

The Department of Health and Human Services May 20 announced it has identified specific pricing targets for pharmaceutical manufacturers to meet to satisfy requirements of the Trump administration’s executive order allowing consumers to make direct purchases from drug manufacturers at “most favored nation” pricing, the lowest cost paid for the same medications in an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development country with a gross domestic product per capita that is at least 60% of the U.S. GDP per capita.
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