Federal kickback law might be used to bring down drug prices, FDA commissioner suggests
The FDA previews Trump's drug-pricing speech, suggesting the government might use a federal kickback law to try to bring down drug prices.
WASHINGTON — The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Scott Gottlieb, on Thursday suggested that a key federal law on kickbacks could be reinterpreted by the government to help rein in the prices of prescription drugs.
Drug companies are currently being sued by lawyers who believe that the Byzantine system of rebates that flow between
