Government Regulation – U.S. Healthcare and Other Reform" There is no assurance that federal or state health care reform will not adversely affect our future business and financial results, and we cannot predict how future federal or state legislative, judicial or administrative changes relating to healthcare policy will affect our business.
The U.S. government, state legislatures and foreign governments have shown significant interest in implementing cost-containment programs to limit the growth of government-paid and private insurance healthcare costs, including proposed or implemented reforms. Cost containment initiatives might include, among other possible actions, implementation or modification of:
increases in, or elimination of caps on, rebates paid on products under government healthcare programs;
delegation of decision making to state Medicaid agencies and waiver of coverage and reimbursement requirements;