tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 45

Pharmaceuticals: MEDICARE BILL RETAINS REIMPORATION RESTRICTIONS

The movement to import less-expensive, Food and Drug Administration-approved medications from Canada has gone way beyond the old-style bus trip across the border. Mayors and governors - including the Republican governor of Minnesota - have moved to systematically facilitate the import of Canadian drugs for their Medicaid and public employee pension programs, and even for their entire populations. At times the pressure to allow such imports - or "reimports," since most of the drugs involved are manufactured in the United States - has seemed unstoppable, but the message from the Medicare conferees is, "Not so fast." The...

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