A Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America executive on Tuesday (May 15) criticized several policies that HHS is considering to lower drug costs: moving Medicare Part B drugs to Part D, replacing the Part B doctor-reimbursement system with the Competitive Acquisition Program, encouraging plans to restrict the use of drugs in protected classes, removing the two-drug per-class rule in Part D, basing Medicaid’s average manufacturer price calculation on commercial-market net prices and removing the cap on price-inflation penalty in Medicaid.