[Briefing Materials]

• "Pharmaceutical Costs: A Comparison of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Medicaid, and Medicare Policies"
  Gretchen A. Jacobson, Sidath Viranga Panangala, and Jean Hearne, Congressional Research Service (CRS), updated January 18, 2007; available only to congressional staff through CRS, order code RL33802, from www.crs.gov
• "Prescription Drug Pricing in the Private Sector"
  Julie Somers and Anna Cook, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), January 2007; available at www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/77xx/doc7715/01-03-PrescriptionDrug.pdf
• "Prices for Brand-Name Drugs Under Selected Federal Programs"
  Julie Somers and Anna Cook, CBO, June 2005; available at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/64xx/doc6481/06-16-PrescriptDrug.pdf
• "Federal Employees' Health Benefits: Effects of Using Pharmacy Benefit Managers on Health Plans, Enrollees, and Pharmacies" (GAO-03-196)
  Government Accountability Office (GAO), January 2003; available at www.gao.gov/new.items/d03196.pdf
• "Medicaid Drug Rebate Program: Inadequate Oversight Raises Concerns about Rebates Paid to States" (GAO-05-102)
  GAO, February 2005; available at www.gao.gov/new.items/d05102.pdf
• "Prescription Drugs: An Overview of Approaches to Negotiate Drug Prices Used by Other Countries and US Private Payers and Federal Programs" (GAO-07-358T)
  Statement of John E. Dicken, GAO, January 11, 2007; available at www.gao.gov/new.items/d07358t.pdf
• "Prescription Drugs: Price Trends for Frequently Used Brand and Generic Drugs from 2000 through 2004" (GAO-05-779)
  GAO, August 2005; available at www.gao.gov/new.items/d05779.pdf

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