President Biden is bringing a number of 340B policy experts on board to his team. Yesterday, he formally nominated Andrea Palm, most recently Wisconsin’s health secretary-designate, to be U.S. Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Palm would be
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Greg Walden (Ore.), the former Republican chair of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee, yesterday launched his own public policy and political strategy firm in partnership with one of Washington’s top lobbying firms.
Walden and the Alpine Group
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The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), in light of the declared public health emergency in Texas, is letting eligible health care providers there enroll immediately in the 340B drug pricing program instead of waiting for the next normal
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The Biden administration should reverse “harmful Trump administration policies” that “undermined the 340B program and contravened Congress’ intent,” the group America’s Essential Hospitals advised President Biden in a letter earlier this month.
America’s Essential Hospitals’ Feb. 10 letter said
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President Biden will likely turn to lowering drug prices once the COVID-19 pandemic stops demanding so much of his attention, Donna Shalala, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary during both of President Clinton’s terms in office, predicted in a
…A federal district judge in Oakland, Calif., has dismissed the lawsuit by hospitals against the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Department over HHS’s enforcement of its 340B contract pharmacy requirements for drug companies.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
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The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) on Tuesday asked a federal district judge in Indianapolis, in a strongly worded filing, to deny drug manufacturer Eli Lilly’s motion in late January to block the 340B program’s new administrative dispute resolution (ADR) process.
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The U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that eliminating the limit on rebates that drug manufacturers pay to Medicaid, now capped at 100 percent of a drug’s average manufacturer price (AMP), “would reduce direct spending in Medicaid by $15.9 billion
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Two U.S. Senate committees have scheduled hearings next week on President Biden’s nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be the next U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. In December, Becerra helped spearhead a bipartisan letter of
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Several news organizations report that the Biden administration will nominate former federal executive and legislative branch health policy official Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to serve as Administrator of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The White House had not announced
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