Roche Takes Drug-Price Posturing to New Heights
Pfizer Inc. started things off earlier this month by agreeing to roll back mid-year price hikes and delay them — for a few months. Similar efforts announced this week by Novartis AG and Merck & Co. arguably won’t be any more consequential. In a statement Friday, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant said it told the Health and Human Services Department on July 11 that it wouldn’t enact any more price hikes in 2018.