Patient Upside Murky In Drug-Price Cases

Medical News Today -- “The prices of hundreds of brand-name drugs are about to be cut 4%, and millions of Americans may soon receive a check in the mail as compensation for having overpaid for their prescriptions,” but “the extent to which the average consumer will benefit isn’t yet clear,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The price cuts and expected payments are the result of federal class-action settlements involving two drug-price publishers and a major drug wholesaler that were accused of inflating drug prices.”