Harriet Blair Rowan

Harriet Blair Rowan was a digital reporter for KFF Health News until February 2020.

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California’s New Transparency Law Reveals Steep Rise In Wholesale Drug Prices

Pharmaceutical companies raised the wholesale cost of their drugs by a median of nearly 26% from 2017 to early 2019, according to California’s first-ever report stemming from a new drug price transparency law. Prices for generic drugs rose nearly 38% during that time.