A senior federal health official informed drug manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) today its restrictions on 340B pricing when hospitals use contract pharmacies are illegal and must end immediately, or BI could face civil monetary penalties.
U.S. Health Resources and Services
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The Biden administration this morning, as widely expected, announced it is rescinding the Trump administration’s regulatory requirement that community health centers pass along all their 340B savings on insulin and EpiPen-like devices to low-income patients with high-cost or no health
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Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) asked a federal district court yesterday to rule that Arkansas’s 340B nondiscrimination act does not require drug manufacturers “to offer price discounts under the 340B program to contract pharmacies in Arkansas.”
PhRMA also
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A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling about administrative law judges who hear patent disputes confirms that rules establishing the 340B program’s administrative dispute resolution (ADR) process are constitutional, government lawyers told a federal district judge this month.
Under the 340B
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A federal district judge this week gave six hospital groups and a drug industry services provider permission to separately offer their expert advice in drug manufacturer Sanofi’s 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit.
In a friend-of-the-court brief, the hospital groups accused
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It is unclear whether congressional Democrats will meet their self-appointed deadline to pass and send to President Biden this week a $3.5 trillion economic and social welfare bill including major drug pricing reforms.
340B covered entities worry that language that
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A Republican U.S. senator on an important health care spending committee wants Congress to pass a law preserving the Trump administration’s controversial requirement that community health centers pass along all their 340B savings on insulin and EpiPen-like devices to low-income,
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Six national hospital groups late last week urged Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to exclude language “that would negatively impact 340B” from major drug pricing reforms that could be voted on this week.
The American Hospital Association, 340B Health, America’s
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Drug manufacturer Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson company, has notified 340B covered entities they are or might be owed refunds for overcharges on 14 widely used products during the first and second quarters of 2021.
Janssen asked the U.S. Health
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U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)—one of the most-engaged members of Congress on 340B matters—has announced he will seek an eighth Senate term in next year’s congressional elections.
Grassley, 88, is the Senate’s second-oldest member. (California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, also 88,
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