S4, E1: 46Brooklyn's Antonio Ciaccia on Jan. 1 Price Hikes

While Jan. 1 means sleeping off a campagne-induced hangover for many, for drug-price wonks, it means an opportunity to look at price-change behavior in the pharmaceutical market, as January is traditionally the month where most list-priceadjustments happen.   <p>Antonio Ciaccia from 46Brooklyn and 3Axis Advisors, looks as closely at the data as anyone -- his Brand Drug Boxscore is required reading -- and has a good sense of the few times should care about list price changes, as well the many reasons why focusing too much on list price increases is ill-advised. <br /> <br /> He joins us this month to get into the truths and the asterisks of talking about the January price-hike tradition.  </p>