The federal fine for overcharging a 340B covered entity just went up from $5,883.00 to $5,953.00 per each instance of overcharging.
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted its annual inflation
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) has pushed back on a JAMA Internal Medicine study suggesting that leading acute care facilities that are 340B covered entities have wide variations in how much they charge insurers for clinician-administered drugs.
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Kaiser Health News (KHN), a nonprofit health care news organization whose stories are widely and freely republished and rebroadcast, released an in-depth article and news video today about the 340B program and the fight over 340B contract pharmacy.
Drug manufacturer Eli Lilly late yesterday filed notice that it is appealing a federal district judge’s Oct. 29 ruling partially in Lilly’s favor and partially for the federal government on the legality of Lilly’s denials of 340B ceiling prices
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In a major organizational change, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has redefined the job of Director of the Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA), the HRSA unit that runs the 340B program.
For the first time
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Although Congress was able to pass a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package last week, the nearly $1.8 trillion Build Back Better bill remains bogged down by infighting among Democrats. Its numerous drug pricing provisions will likely undergo changes prior
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The smoke is still clearing from three federal district judges’ recent decisions in drug manufacturers Lilly, Sanofi, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, and United Therapeutics’ 340B contract pharmacy lawsuits. In the rulings’ wake, we are keeping close tabs on what happens
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A hospital group says two federal district judges got it right, but one got it wrong, on whether drug manufacturers are legally bound to provide 340B drug discounts for drugs dispensed at contract pharmacies.
In a Nov. 6
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