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Brian Reid

@brianreid.bsky.social
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I have a newsletter. It's called Cost Curve. I write a lot about dull things like 340B reform and benefit design and the Value Flower. You can probably Google it.

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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Headline writers were kind of phoning it in yesterday. #takeaways
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The @washingtonpost.com eddy board has a wildly pro-pharma editorial today. Good to see innovation recognized. wapo.st/4k4Pkx2
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
@matt-levine.bsky.social nails how I think about video. Like, I don't get the fascination, but it's hard not to see there is demand. So yes, more dumb LinkedIn videos coming.
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Antonio Ciaccia @aciaccia.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“This has the feel of a Truth Social post in the form of an executive order.” Big pop @brianreid.bsky.social www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...
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Our biggest burning questions on Trump’s order to bring down drug prices
Trump's executive order lacks specifics and raises questions on what can be accomplished, what will be challenged in court.
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Is the CMS drug negotiation page down for anyone else?
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Props to the Bloomberg photo-captions person.
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Peter Neumann @peterneumann11.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Thanks to all my wonderful Tufts-CEVR colleagues for putting on another great annual meeting! Proud to work with you! @dano-hta.bsky.social @brianreid.bsky.social @tuftscevr.bsky.social @mollytoba.bsky.social
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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su
A beeswarm chart of canceled NIH grants showing the years into each project when the funding was pulled. Each dot represents a terminated grant and is colored by the number of publications associated with the project: none, one to four or five or more. The grants are separated into thee rows based on the award type (R01, U01, U54). RO1 research projects had the most terminations, which occurred at all stages of research, from the project onset to 7+ years in. Most grants were canceled short of the 4-5 year lifespan of a typical grant, and 40% of R01s had no publications at the time of termination. Projects that had been active for longer had more publications, suggesting that more findings are disseminated in the later stages of these grants.
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Max Bayer @maxbayer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
@endpts.com got ahold of the HHS restructuring document. My angle this morning: endpts.com/cms-would-ab...
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CMS would absorb 340B drug discount program under leaked HHS reorganization proposal
The 340B drug discount program may move under the purview of CMS, according to a leaked HHS restructuring document reviewed by Endpoints News.
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Man, there was a lot packed into yesterday's executive order on drug pricing. Here's my effort to get my brain around all of the moving pieces: costcurve.beehiiv.com/p/10-thought...
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10 Thoughts on Trump’s Drug-Pricing Executive Order
I really thought today might be an easy day. I should have known better.
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Antonio Ciaccia @aciaccia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
There’s a lot in this Trump package of drug pricing executive orders, but perhaps what’s most interesting is what’s not in them: No signs of life for ending the safe harbor to anti-kickback laws for drugmaker rebates. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
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Adam Feuerstein✡️ @adamfeuerstein.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
FDA’s ‘key man’ Peter Marks is out. Biotech investors will now deal with the consequences www.statnews.com/2025/03/30/f...
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FDA’s ‘key man’ Peter Marks is out. Biotech investors will now deal with the consequences
Peter Marks’ ouster comes at a time when the sector is already suffering through a years-long public markets slump.
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Not good.
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Margot Sanger-Katz @sangerkatz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Reading this Paragon report on Medicaid provider taxes, and I have a lot of questions about the art! paragoninstitute.org/medicaid/add...
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is what happens when a $60B+ program has no oversight. Is there anyone involved in #340B that can justify this kind of arrangement?
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Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is an absolutely incredible story - read it. Its so hard to convey what jobs that look like sitting behind a computer are actually *for*. This is what the FDA is for, and why we all need it, desperately. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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Opinion | The free-living bureaucrat
Michael Lewis on Heather Stone of the Food and Drug Administration.
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
@maya-goldman.bsky.social with a scoop on the fate of a bunch of CMMI projects. Two as-yet-unlaunched drug-price demos got the axe. Probably not a surprise, but clarifying nonetheless. www.axios.com/2025/03/12/m...
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Drug-pricing transparency reports used to be a big deal. Are retreats from Novartis (last year) and Novo Nordisk (this year) changing that? From today's Cost Curve: costcurve.beehiiv.com/p/it-s-drug-...
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It’s Drug-Price Transparency Season ... But Disclosures May Be on the Wane
And a J&J lawsuit over biosimilars is the first shot in the war against PBM-backed pseudo-pharma companies
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Also a national treasure: @matt-levine.bsky.social.
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Joel Stein is a treasure. Also: health care is broken.
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Most days, I wake up and write a newsletter with, like, five or six items on drug pricing/policy. Today, 17 different topics caught my eye. 2025 is off to a wild start. costcurve.beehiiv.com/p/there-s-an...
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There's an Abbreviation for Everyone Today: PBM, IRA, 340B, RFK, ICER, NPLB
It's one of those drinking-from-a-firehose days
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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I know the world is on fire, but maybe next week will be less chaotic and you would like a little break to talk drug policy? If so, please join me and Laura Tollen at Health Affairs to talk about the next 15 drugs selected for Medicare negotiation! www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/h...
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Heck of a few days on the drug-pricing-and-policy beat. A victory for transparent list prices, a little on tariffs, some Kennedy items, the IRA's impact on pharmacies, and a candidate for headline of the year ... costcurve.beehiiv.com/p/will-the-p...
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Will the Price Disclosure for Vertex's Journavx Set a New Standard for Transparency?
Plus a bit on how tariffs are going to worsen, not improve, the issues with generic meds in the United States. And Kennedy nears the end of the beginning.
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Antonio Ciaccia @aciaccia.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Looks like if PBMs want to get to know intimate details of my life, they will have to get a pair of binoculars and repeatedly drive around the block like a normal person. www.ftc.gov/system/files...
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Love this. @nikillinit.bsky.social nails the #JPM25 ironies.
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Greg Matthews @chimoose.com · 15/01/2025
Interesting survey from Gallup on attitudes about healthcare in the context of the Trump presidency (HT, again, to @brianreid.bsky.social). Do respondents really believe this, or do Ds automatically hate everything Trump, and Rs automatically love everything Trump? news.gallup.com/poll/654704/...
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Nearly Half of U.S. Says Healthcare Headed in Wrong Direction
Americans are divided over President-elect Trump's policies for lowering healthcare costs. Views vary by political affiliation, but by two to one, independents think the policies take the U.S. in the ...
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Matthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I shared this story about Jimmy Carter on X last year. I'd like to put it here, too. It starts with a reporter's keepsake. These are the notes President Carter handed me after I met him at a $MRK event to celebrate the company's collaboration with the Carter Center to end river blindness. 1/8
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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
At least the murder hornets are gone www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...
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‘Murder Hornet’ Has Been Eradicated From the U.S., Officials Say
The hornet was discovered in a corner of Washington State. Five years later, a massive mobilization has eliminated the invasive species, at least for now.
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The benefit design change part of the IRA -- the part that gives beneficiaries the $2,000 out-of-pocket cap in Part D -- is going to cost Pfizer a billion dollars next year. That $500 million in boosted sales, less $1.5 billion in additional responsibilities in the catastrophic phase.
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Trump on "middlemen" during his presser today: "I don't know who these middlemen are but they are rich as hell and we're going to knock out the middlemen." Not good news for #pbms! www.youtube.com/live/ZGqwYXn...
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Is the IRA impacting R&D decisions? Endpoints polling of biopharm execs suggests that the answer here is a big "yes." Peep the verbatims, too. More evidence that the incentives baked into the law are wreaking real havoc on development. endpts.com/the-endpoint...
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The Endpoints 100: The biotech industry braces for Trump 2.0
A survey of 77 biotech executives reveals concerns about FDA changes following Donald Trump's reelection. Martin Makary's nomination as FDA chief has eased some worries, while Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s ...
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
There is so much #340B news and content out there right now. I know this probably feels dull to most folks, but -- boy -- 340B is having a *moment.* costcurve.beehiiv.com/p/so-much-34...
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So Much 340B: SCOTUS Weighs In, a Georgia System Nets $700M+ in Profit, and More
Plus an important corrective to the pharmacy-closure story from last week
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Nicole Haase @nicolehaase.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Women's Frozen Four tickets go on sale in 15 minutes A full session package for both semifinal games and the championship are just $50! That's an absolute steal of a price. March 21 and 23 at Ridder Arena at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. You should go
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Oh my. There was a lot of academic research unpack today on drug pricing. Here's my summary of five papers worth tracking. (And there's another paper or two on the docket tomorrow if you're getting the newsletter.) costcurve.beehiiv.com/p/so-many-re...
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So Many Research Papers To Dissect Today
And a breathless Reuters story suggests that industry thinks IRA fixes are in play during Trump 2.0
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pharmalot.bsky.social @pharmalot.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Minnesota becomes first state to release report on 340B drug discount program for ‘safety-net’ hospitals.. statnews.com/pharmalot/20... #pharma #biotech #Minnesota #medicines #hospitals #340B
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Minnesota becomes first state to release report on 340B drug discount program for 'safety-net' hospitals
Minnesota has becomes the first state to release a report examining the 340B drug discount program for "safety-net" hospitals.
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William Feldman @wbfeldman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New paper out at @jamacurrent.bsky.social led by @ojwouters.bsky.social on the empirical assumptions underlying differential protection for biologics & small-molecule drugs. Upshot: We found no good evidence supporting differential treatment by FDA (or under IRA). jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Legal Protections for Biologics vs Small-Molecule Drugs in the US
This Special Communication analyzes and compares development times, clinical trial success rates, research and development costs, patent protection, market exclusivity periods, revenues, and treatment...
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Big day in the world of #340B. Minnesota just dropped a report detailing the extent of the 340B program in the state. It shows a lot of money sloshing around, and not necessarily in ways that maximize patient benefit. costcurve.beehiiv.com/p/special-ed...
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Special Edition: The Minnesota 340B Report Is Out
The data has some gaps -- as the state recognizes -- but it's still a fantastic resource for seeing how the program operates at a more granular level
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Brian Reid @brianreid.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I am such a fan of the new "Value Flower" paper that refines, defines, and lays out a road map for the way that novel value elements can be used. Such a boon not just to economists but communicators, too. costcurve.beehiiv.com/p/letting-a-...
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Letting a Million Flowers Bloom: The Implications of an Excellent Revision to the 'Value Flower'
And trying to catch up on everything from IP reform to 340B messaging
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Jonathan Rockoff @jonathanrockoff.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
@wsj.com has an opening for a health reporter. If you're interested in joining a great team and reporting on life-and-death matters involving huge costs, please reach out.
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Health Reporter in NEW YORK, New York, United States
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Greg Matthews @chimoose.com · 21/11/2024
Just for fun: I have a panel of 100k physicians on Twitter/X. I looked at how many of them were posting on X about BlueSky over the past year. The phenomenon is real! #MedSky #MedPharma cc @katesears.bsky.social @katiepalmer.bsky.social More at HealthQuant.com
A chart showing that between November 2023 and October 2024, there were 20-80 doctors posting about BlueSky on X. Through November 20, 2024, 1,143 have posted about BlueSky. It's hockey-stick growth.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Any pharmacists, Pass through PBMs , health care professionals out there ? Time to grow the industry and take on big PBMs right here !
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