![](https://c4ip.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/800px-The_Hill_2020-01-15.png-300x246.png)
Lobbying World
Medicare has a herculean task ahead of setting up an infrastructure to take on an entirely new function for the program — regulating how much it pays for certain medications, and penalizing drug makers that hike prices faster than inflation. With new responsibility comes new bureaucracy, new documents obtained by STAT show.