Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca are the latest drug makers to disclose they have received a subpoena from the Vermont attorney general’s office related to their denials of 340B ceiling prices on drugs shipped to contract pharmacies.
Year: 2021
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and ASHP (the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) want the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “take appropriate action” against white bagging—the health care payer requirement that hospitals obtain specialty drugs for insured patients
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Commercially insured patients with deductibles and coinsurance pay more when manufacturers raise a drug’s list price and do not directly benefit from the confidential rebates paid by manufacturers to insurers, according to a study published this morning in JAMA Open
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The Arkansas legislature on Tuesday passed what is believed to be the first bill nationally to address pharmaceutical manufacturer denials of 340B pricing on drugs when they are dispensed by contract pharmacies.
The state Senate passed the bipartisan bill,
President Biden has left out of his American Families human-capital investment plan drug pricing reforms that Democratic leaders in Congress have pressed him hard to add. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.),
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It’s becoming increasingly difficult for Covered Entities (CEs) to effectively manage their 340B pharmacy programs. Often times understaffed relative to the task of handling the myriad of challenges that come with managing a 340B program, they face a seemingly constant barrage of maneuvering and attacks aimed at reducing their 340B benefit. In response, many Covered Entities are evaluating new strategies to strengthen or reinvigorate
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A federal judge in Delaware yesterday declined to add hospital groups as third parties to a drugmaker’s lawsuit challenging the federal government’s 340B program contract pharmacy enforcement mechanisms. But he left the door open to letting the groups participate as
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