MATE Improvement Act

FY 2026 Appropriations for Specific Issues ---Drug Pricing ---Antimicrobial Resistance (General) --- Vaccines and Infectious Diseases --- Alternative Funding Programs --- Pandemic Preparedness - R&D Funding for Medical Countermeasures 340B Drug Discount Program ---Executive Order on Access to Affordable Life-Saving Medications ---Program Implementation & Oversight --- PROTECT 340B Act --- SUSTAIN 340B Act Accelerated Approval Artificial Intelligence (AI) Alternative Funding Programs Biosimilars ---Biosimilar Copay ---BSUFA Negotiations ---Implementation of BSUFA Agreement ---Interchangeability and Pharmacy Substitution ---Reimbursement ---Biosimilars Red Tape Elimination Act Cell & Gene Therapy --- H.R.1672 - Maintaining Investments and New Innovation (MINI) Act Clinical Trial Data in China Diversity & Inclusion ---Decentralized Clinical Trials Drug Evaluation and Review ---Promising Pathway Act ---FDA Hiring Flexibility Drug Importation Drug Manufacturing, Quality & Distribution ---Advanced Manufacturing ---Drug Shortages ---Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy ---Supply Chain Integrity and Traceability ---Compounded Medicines Drug Patenting ---Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act ---Prescription Pricing for the People Act ---Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act ---Stop STALLING Act ---Restrictions on Intellectual Property Rights ---Patent Thickets Drug Pricing ---H.R.946: ORPHAN Cures Act --- H.R. 1492 Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures (EPIC) Act --- H.R.1672 Maintaining Investments and New Innovation (MINI) Act ---Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act of 2025 ---PBM Reform ---Prescription Pricing for the People Act ---Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act ---Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act ---Stop STALLING Act ---CMMI Authority ---Implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ---Patient Cost-Sharing and Implementation ---Strengthening Innovation in Medicare and Medicaid Act ---Most Favored Nation Foreign Drug Data Protection Laws ---Bio COMPETES (Draft) ---Executive Order on Preventing Access to Americans Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern ---House GOP RFI on Supply Chain ---Regulatory Harmonization Medicaid ---Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act ---Alternative Payment Arrangements for Gene Therapies ---Average Manufacturer Price Calculations ---Coverage of Accelerated Approval Products ---Drug Benefit Design ---Encouraging Innovation Benefit Design to Lower Costs for Seniors Act ---Medicaid Drug Rebate Program ---Most Favored Nation ---Pricing and Rebates ---Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Rule National Defense ---National Defense Authorization Act of 2025 Opioid Crisis ---SUPPORT Act ---Non-Opioid Analgesics ---Transparency ---Coverage and Reimbursement Orphan Drug Issues ---H.R.946: ORPHAN Cures Act ---S. 946 ORPHAN Cures Act ---Give Kids A Chance Act ---Pediatric Priority Review Voucher Program Reauthorization ---Implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 ---Orphan Drug Tax Credit Pandemic Preparedness --- Drug Supply Chain Management --- House GOP RFI on Supply Chain --- Monoclonal Antibody Coverage and Utilization --- Restrictions on Intellectual Property Rights --- Supply Chain Issues --- WHO Pandemic Preparedness Accord --- Medical Countermeasure Priority Review Voucher Reauthorization Precision Medicine Initiative Reimbursement and Coverage of Innovative Products --- HR 3375 Fair Prescription Drug Prices for Americans Act --- HR 3493 Global Fairness in Drug Pricing Act --- S.1587 Fair Prescription Drug Prices for Americans Act --- S.1818 Prescription Drug Price Relief Act ---HELP Copays Act ---Administration Rebate Rule ---CMMI Authority ---In-Home Administration of Part B Drugs ---Medicare Part B Physician-Administered Products ---National Coverage Determination ---Patient Cost-Sharing and Smoothing ---Protected Classes ---Support of Patient Premiums and Cost-Sharing Obligations ---Value-based Contracting and Communications Vaccines and Infectious Diseases ---Adult Immunization --- Implementation of the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act ---Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program ---Vaccine Injury Compensation Program ---Maternal Immunization ---MCM Manufacturing & Capacity ---MCM PRV Reauthorization ---Monoclonal Antibody Coverage and Utilization ---National Coverage Determination ---Vaccine Safety and Quality ---Vaccine Safety Net and Vaccine Infrastructure ---Value of Vaccines and Vaccine Confidence

Client expense: $1,840,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

FY 2026 Appropriations for Agencies ---ASPR ---Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ---FDA ---Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) ---HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy ---National Institute of Health ---BARDA FY 2026 Appropriations for Specific Issues --- Alternative Funding Programs --- Antimicrobial Resistance (General) --- Biodefense/Biomedical/Emergency Preparedness Research, Development and Procurement --- CICP --- Creating Hope Reauthorization Act --- Drug Pricing --- Funding for Strategic National Stockpile --- Funding for Women's Health Research --- Implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) --- Influenza Planning & Response --- MCM PRV Reauthorization --- Pandemic Preparedness - R&D Funding for Medical Countermeasures --- PPRV --- Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) VII Implementation --- Project Bioshield --- Reauthorization of PAHPA --- Vaccines and Infectious Diseases --- Vaccine Injury Compensation Program --- Section 317 Immunization Program 340B Drug Discount Program --- 340B Accountability Act ---Executive Order on Access to Affordable Life-Saving Medications ---Program Implementation & Oversight ---PROTECT 340B Act ---SUSTAIN 340B Act Accelerated Approval Access to non-human Primates (NHPs) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Alternative Funding Programs Biodefense Research, Development and Procurement Issues ---Bio COMPETES (Draft) ---Biodefense ---BIOSECURE Act ---Disease X Act ---Gain of function (Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act, SAFE Risky Research Act) ---House GOP RFI on Supply Chain ---Implementation of Medical Countermeasure Innovation Act ---Implementation of Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation (PAHPAI) Act ---Improving Data Accessibility Through Advancements (DATA) in Public Health Act ---MCM PRV Program Reauthorization --- NDAA --- Reauthorization of Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing (PAHPA) --- Risky Research Review Act --- Tropical Disease Priority Review Voucher (PRV) Program --- VICP Loopholes --- WHO Pandemic Preparedness Accord Biosimilars ---Bio COMPETES (Draft) ---Biosimilar Copay ---Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act ---House GOP RFI on Supply Chain ---Interchangeability and Pharmacy Substitution ---Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act ---Reimbursement Cell & Gene Therapy --- H.R.1672 Maintaining Investments and New Innovation (MINI) Act Climate Change Data Privacy ---American Privacy Rights Act ---Bio COMPETES (Draft) ---BIOSECURE Act ---Clinical Trial Data in China ---Executive Order on Preventing Access to Americans Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern ---House GOP RFI on Data Privacy Diversity & Inclusion ---Decentralized Clinical Trials ---Implementation of Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging New Threats and (PREVENT) Pandemics Act Drug Evaluation and Review ---COVID-19 Lessons Learned ---FDA Hiring Flexibility ---Promising Pathway Act ---PDUFA ---FDA Reform Drug Importation Drug Manufacturing, Quality & Distribution ---Advanced Manufacturing ---Drug Shortages ---Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy ---Supply Chain Integrity and Traceability ---Compounding & Counterfeit Medicines Drug Patenting ---A bill to address patent thickets ---Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act ---Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act ---Medication Affordability and Patient Integrity Act ---Patent Thickets ---Prescription Pricing for the People Act ---Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act ---Restrictions on Intellectual Property Rights ---Stop STALLING Act Drug Pricing ---H.R.946: ORPHAN Cures Act ---H.R. 1492 Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures (EPIC) Act --- H.R.1672 Maintaining Investments and New Innovation (MINI) Act --- S.2082 Stronger Patents Act --- Access to Innovative Treatments Act --- Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act --- Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act --- CMMI Authority --- COVID-19 Pricing-Related Provisions --- DRUG Act --- Ensuring Timely Access to Generics --- Implementation of the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act for FY 2020 --- Implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) --- Increasing Transparency in Generic Drug Application --- Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act --- Lowering Drug Costs for American Families Act --- Mandating Exclusive Review of Individual Treatments (MERIT) Act --- Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Act --- Medicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act --- Modernizing and Ensuring PBM Accountability (MEPA) Act --- Most Favored Nation --- National Coverage Determination --- Patient Cost-Sharing and Implementation --- PBM Reform --- Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act --- Prescription Drug Price Relief Act --- Prescription Pricing for the People Act --- Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act --- Protecting Patient Access to Cancer and Therapies --- Stop STALLING Act --- Strengthening Innovation in Medicare and Medicaid Act Efforts to expand the Bio Economy & Bio Manufacturing Foreign Drug Data Protection Laws ---Bio COMPETES (Draft) ---BIOSECURE Act ---Executive Order on Preventing Access to Americans Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern ---House GOP RFI on Supply Chain Generic Drug Entry --- Stop STALLING Act Issues Relating to Medical Research and Animal Testing ---FDA Modernization Act 3.0 Medicaid ---Alternative Payment Arrangements for Gene Therapies ---Average Manufacturer Price Calculations ---Drug Benefit Design --- Modernizing and Ensuring PBM Accountability (MEPA) Act ---Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2025 ---Pricing and Rebates --- The Medicaid VBPs for Patients (MVP) Act ---Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Rule National Defense ---National Defense Authorization Act of 2025 National Security ---American Privacy Rights Act ---BIOSECURE Act ---Clinical Trial Data in China --- Executive Order on Preventing Access to Americans Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern Opioid Crisis ---Coverage and Reimbursement ---Non-Opioid Analgesics ---SUPPORT Act Orphan Drug Issues ---H.R.946: ORPHAN Cures Act ---H.R.1262: Give Kids a Chance Act ---S. 946 ORPHAN Cures Act ---Finding Orphan-Disease Remedies with Antifungal Research and Development (FORWARD) Act ---Implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 ---Innovation in Pediatric Drugs Act of 2023 ---Pediatric Priority Review Voucher Program ---Orphan Drug Tax Credit ---Retaining Access and Restoring Exclusivity (RARE) Act ---Rare Disease Pilot Program Pandemic Preparedness ---Drug Supply Chain Management ---House GOP RFI on Supply Chain --- Implementation of the Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging New Threats and (PREVENT) Pandemics Act ---Medical Countermeasures PRV Reauthorization ---Monoclonal Antibody Coverage and Utilization ---Project Bio Shield ---Supply Chain Issues ---Temporarily Refundable R&D Credit ---TRIPS Waiver ---WHO Pandemic Preparedness Accord Precision Medicine Initiative Reimbursement and Coverage of Innovative Products --- HR 3375 Fair Prescription Drug Prices for Americans Act --- HR 3493 Global Fairness in Drug Pricing Act --- S.1587 Fair Prescription Drug Prices for Americans Act --- S.1818 Prescription Drug Price Relief Act ---CMMI Authority --- End Price Gauging for Medications Act ---HELP Copays Act ---Implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 ---In-Home Administration of Part B Drugs ---Lower Costs, More Cures Act ---Lower Costs, More Transparency Act ---Lowering Drug Costs for American Families Act --- Mandating Exclusive Review of Individual Treatments (MERIT) Act --- Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Act ---Medicare Part B Physician-Administered Products ---National Coverage Determination ---Patient Cost-Sharing and Smoothing --- Prescription Drug Price Relief Act ---Protected Classes --- SAFE STEP Act --- SMART Prices Act --- Step Therapy ---Support of Patient Premiums and Cost-Sharing Obligations --- The Medicaid VBPs for Patients (MVP) Act ---Value-based Contracting and Communications --- Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Rule Vaccines and Infectious Diseases --- Access to Innovative Treatments Act ---Adult Immunization --- Antimicrobial Resistance (General) ---CICP - General --- Countermeasure Injury Compensation Fund Amendment Act --- Finding Orphan-Disease Remedies with Antifungal Research and Development (FORWARD) Act --- Let Injured Americans Be Legally Empowered (LIABLE) Act --- Maternal Immunization ---MCM Manufacturing & Capacity --- MCM R&D Incentives --- Monoclonal Antibody Coverage and Utilization --- National Coverage Determination --- SAFE STEP Act --- Vaccine Access Improvement Act --- Vaccine and Antimicrobial Resistance Product Development and Incentives --- Vaccine Injury Compensation Modernization Act --- Vaccine Injury Compensation Program --- Vaccine Quality Measure --- Vaccine Safety --- Vaccine Safety Net and Vaccine Infrastructure --- Value of Vaccines and Vaccine Confidence --- VICP CICP (Discussion Draft) ---HR 3701 Family Vaccine Protection Act

Client expense: $1,840,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Natl Security Council (NSC), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office