The Biden administration last Friday, as widely expected, proposed withdrawing or repealing a Trump administration final rule that will automatically extinguish all U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations if HHS does not renew each regulation within a certain timeframe.
…Year: 2021
340B INDUSTRY LEADER SPOTLIGHT
Kelly Kolker, President, 340B Solutions, CPS
Q: Where did you grow up?
Born and raised in the great state of Iowa, and I still live here. It is a fantastic place to raise a family.
Q: Where did you go to college/graduate school?
Clarke University for undergrad (Chemistry); The University of Iowa for Pharmacy School; University of Dubuque for MBA.
Q: What
…A federal district judge in Indianapolis late this afternoon set aside and vacated the federal government’s May 17 finding that drug manufacturer Eli Lilly’s denials of 340B ceiling prices when covered entities use contract pharmacies violate the 340B statute.
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…2021 is on track to rival peak year 2018 in lobbying intensity on the 340B drug pricing program.
Attention on health care lobbying in Washington today focuses on the huge sums the drug industry is spending fighting Democratic drug price
…Drug manufacturer Astra Zeneca and the federal government both want a federal district judge in Delaware to rule quickly in the drug company’s lawsuit over the government’s 340B contract pharmacy requirements.
The two sides, however, are miles apart on why
…U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich of the District of Columbia has been assigned to a fourth 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit.
Boehringer Ingelheim’s (BI) lawsuit in defense of its policy of denying hospitals 340B drug discounts when hospitals use contract pharmacies
…A federal court ruling on the legality and constitutionality of Arkansas’s 340B nondiscrimination law might not come until sometime in 2023.
U.S. Senior District Judge Billy Roy Wilson on Monday issued an initial scheduling order in the drug industry lawsuit
…The U.S. Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) has ordered two drug manufacturers that it audited—Akorn Inc. and BioComp Pharma—to repay 340B covered entities for overcharges.
HRSA updated its fiscal year 2021 audit results on its website last week. …
The federal government and the two groups that sued it separately to force it to issue long delayed 340B administrative dispute resolution (ADR) regulations agreed last night to keep stays in place in both lawsuits until Jan. 3, 2022. Meanwhile,
…A central Virginia community health center has joined an upstate New York health center’s antitrust lawsuit against four insulin and diabetes drug manufacturers over the companies’ denials of 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.
Central Virginia Health Services’
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