AMCP Legislative & Regulatory Briefing — May 2025

House of Representatives Advances Budget Reconciliation Legislation
This week, the House of Representatives passed their budget reconciliation package, the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1).

Act Now to Stop Congress from Cutting Pharmacy Education
This month, AMCP, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) are urging Congress to protect students’ access to quality pharmacy education and federal student loan support.

AMCP Publishes Update on International Reference Pricing 
In 2020, the first Trump administration’s CMS Innovation Center unveiled a new drug pricing model that would have tied the prices of the top 50 Medicare Part B drugs, by spend, to the prices paid by other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.

AMCP Priority Legislation Reintroduced as Advocates Take to the Hill
With Jan. 3 marking the beginning of the 119th United States Congress, legislation not passed by the previous Congress must be reintroduced in the current term.

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