Generic drug manufacturer Unichem Pharmaceuticals USA must repay 340B covered entities for overcharges found during a 340B program compliance audit, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) said yesterday.
HRSA has been auditing five drug manufacturers per year for
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Congress and the White House should let financially distressed critical access hospitals keep their 340B drug discounts if they opt under a new law to downgrade into emergency hospitals to remain solvent, rural health advocates told federal health officials in
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In its mid-year report released this month, Fitch Ratings predicts a “deteriorating” outlook for nonprofit hospitals and health systems through the remainder of 2022 and into 2023. This is primarily driven by the “macro headwinds” of high labor costs and
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The landmark prescription drug pricing legislation that President Joe Biden signed this month is a mixed bag for 340B stakeholders, 340B Health Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky says in his latest column for Omnicell.
Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act on
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Q: Where did you grow up?
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Q: Where did you go to college?
Queens College in New York
Q: What are your favorites?
Food:
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Last September, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) published a drug manufacturers’ notice to 340B covered entities that it was limiting distribution of a medicine that alleviates a side effect of HIV/AIDS treatment.
It was the fifth limited
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A federal district judge on Tuesday gave federal health officials a Sept. 22 deadline to respond to a higher court’s ruling last month that a South Carolina health center has the right to challenge the legality of the government’s 340B
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U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) has reintroduced a comprehensive health care bill he sponsored during the last session of Congress that would create new reporting requirements for 340B disproportionate share (DSH), children’s, and free-standing cancer hospitals and their child sites.
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Correction, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, 3:00 p.m. EDT—The original version of this article mistakenly said the hospital plaintiffs’ complaint stated that HHS improperly based 2020 and 2021 Medicare Part B drug payment cuts for 340B hospitals on a survey of
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Q: Where did you grow up?
I grew up in a rural area of Southern New Jersey, which is just about halfway between Philadelphia, PA and the Jersey Shore, as
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