ANTIBIOTIC MEASURE DROPPED FROM SENATE VERSION — Meanwhile, a provision to boost payments for much-needed antibiotics has been dropped from the Senate GOP stimulus package, aides and lobbyists confirm. A corresponding measure was not in the House bill.
Conversations are ongoing, but it’s looking “pretty grim,” said one policy expert close to negotiations. The provision, drawn from the bipartisan DISARM Act, S. 1712 (116), would have boosted Medicare payments for antibiotics…
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