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Inflation Reduction Act: Increasing healthcare coverage, reducing healthcare prices. How will it impact manufacturers?

September 12, 2023
Charles River Associates medicine on money

This is part one of a three-part series published in Managed Healthcare Executive.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, signed into law last August, contains some of the most significant changes in healthcare regulation since the introduction of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. There are many healthcare-related policy changes contained in the IRA, which can be categorized into three major sections: expansion of patient access to affordable insurance, adjustments to medication pricing and reimbursement and reforms to patient cost-sharing

There are at least three important changes within the IRA impacting patient access to health insurance. Read the article here to learn more.