President Biden has nominated current White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) General Counsel Sam Bagenstos to be the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) General Counsel—a post that has had a growing role in defending the 340B
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President Biden this morning called on Congress to let Medicare negotiate drug prices and penalize drug companies that raise their prices faster than inflation.
Biden said lawmakers should establish a firm cap on the amount that Medicare beneficiaries have to
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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted 69-30 to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes two drug pricing provisions, neither directly 340B-related. The bill now moves to the U.S. House, which is on a seven-week summer break. The $1 trillion
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Regulations establishing a binding administrative dispute resolution (ADR) process for the 340B program were rushed into place last December to defeat lawsuits, are fatally flawed legally and constitutionally, and should be struck down, the main U.S. trade association for drug
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The Biden administration plans to rescind a published but unimplemented Trump-era regulation that would peg Medicare Part B drug reimbursement for 50 expensive, physician-administered drugs on the lowest price that drug manufacturers get in similar countries. The widely criticized regulation
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California’s twice-postponed shift of Medicaid (Medi-Cal) managed care prescription drug benefits to Medi-Cal fee for service (FFS) is back on for Jan. 1, 2022, one year later than originally planned.
A similar high-stakes battle over Medicaid reimbursement for 340B-purchased drugs
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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) is pushing for passage of a package of 13 “Less for Rx” bills to control prescription drug costs, including one to eliminate payer and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) discrimination against certain 340B covered entities.
The
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The clerk of the federal district court in Wilmington, Del., confirmed this morning that a judge did not rule that drug manufacturer AstraZeneca is not required to deliver 340B discounts drugs to an unlimited number of contract pharmacies. There were
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CORRECTION Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, 8:15 p.m.—Earlier today, we misdescribed Novo Nordisk’s 340B contract pharmacy policy. Beginning on Jan. 1, 2021, Novo Nordisk stopped facilitating bill to/ship to distribution of 340B product to hospital contract pharmacies. We incorrectly said Novo
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U.S. Reps. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) and Abigail Spanberger’s (D-Va.) bipartisan PROTECT 340B Act (H.R. 4390) can “resolve two of the most intractable challenges in the 340B program in one fell swoop” while satisfying both covered entities and drug manufacturers, 340B
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