The 2025 Pharma Trajectory
Jeffrey Casberg, M.S., of IPD Analytics and Luke Greenwalt, MBA, of IQVIA, both members of the Managed Healthcare Executive (MHE) editorial advisory board, will provide a midyear assessment of the pharmacy market and the policy and politics affecting it. Topics to be discussed include the possibility of tariffs, the most-favored nation drug pricing executive order, aspect of the reconciliation bill that could affect the pharmaceutical and pharmacy benefit management industries, pressure on the gross-to-net “bubble,” implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act price negotiations, GLP-1s and notable FDA approvals in the second half of 2025. Note that this a menu and some topics may be added or subtracted depending on time and news up to airtime on June 12. Peter Wehrwein, managing editor of MHE is moderating the discussion.
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