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Buried deep within the Inflation Reduction Act’s drug-price negotiation provisions is language that could open the way to a new era of biomedical breakthroughs and smarter health spending.

This language does something Medicare hasn’t tried before: It ties payment for treatments to how well they work. Doing so used to be illegal. But it will now be required for some drugs.

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