Biopharma Company Apellis Posts 340B Limited Distribution Notice

Apellis has posted a notice on HRSA's website informing 340B entities how they can get 340B pricing on the company's new product, Empaveli, which has a REMS.

Biopharmaceutical company Apellis has announced a limited distribution plan for Empaveli (pegcetacoplan), a newly approved treatment for adults with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a rare, chronic, life-threatening blood disorder.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Empaveli on

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Health Center Files 340B Contract Pharmacy Antitrust Suit Against Insulin Makers, Seeks Nationwide Class Action Certification

The reception area in Mosaic Health's Illion, N.Y., location. Mosaic accuses four insulin manufacturers in a new lawsuit of conspiring to raise prices for 340B entities that use contract pharmacies.

An upstate New York health center has sued the nation’s four major insulin manufacturers for allegedly conspiring to stop offering 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.

Mosaic Health’s July 30 lawsuit claims that insulin manufacturers’ Sanofi, Eli

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Boehringer Ingelheim Halts 340B Pricing on Contract Pharmacy Drugs

Boehringer Ingelheim on Sunday became the seventh drug manufacturer to deny 340B pricing on its products when hospitals use contract pharmacies.

Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) on Sunday became the seventh drug manufacturer to deny 340B pricing on its products when hospitals contract with pharmacies to dispense the medicines, hospitals reported yesterday.

BI this morning confirmed that it has begun denying 340B pricing

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Infrastructure Bill Excludes Spread-Pricing Language That 340B Entities Oppose

An infrastructure-spending bill nearing a vote in the U.S. Senate excludes Medicaid managed care “spread pricing” language that 340B entities have been fending off since 2019.

340B covered entities dodged a bullet Sunday when U.S. Senate negotiators released the text of a $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure-spending bill. It did not contain Medicaid managed care “spread pricing” language that entities have been fending off since 2019. Entities

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Young Firebrand Lawmaker Gets into Shouting Match with 340B Champion

U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C., left) and the staff of Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va., right) allegedly got into "a back-and-forth" last week over Cawthorn's listing as a co-sponsor of 340B legislation that McKinley filed with Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.).

News organization Politico reports that U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) “got into a back-and-forth with” the staff of Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) last week Thursday, July 29, over Cawthorn’s listing as a co-sponsor of legislation to protect 340B covered

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Distressed Critical Access Hospitals that Devolve to Stay Open Would Lose 340B Eligibility

A new federal law to help financially distressed rural hospitals stay open in a reduced capacity would not preserve the hospitals’ eligibility for 340B drug discounts.

A new federal law to help financially distressed rural hospitals stay open in a reduced capacity would not preserve the hospitals’ eligibility for 340B drug discounts.

Federal spending legislation that President Trump signed into law last Dec. 27 included a

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