Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) announced September 20th that it is acquiring the remaining 30% stake in 340B specialty pharmacy company Shields Health Solutions that it did not already own. WBA first invested in Shields in July 2019. Last year, it spent
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Q: Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Cocoa Beach, Florida. The Kennedy Space Center was only miles from my home. This allowed me the luxury of
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Lawyers for federal healthcare officials told a federal district court yesterday that the government opposes a South Carolina health center’s efforts to have the longstanding 340B program definition of patient declared illegal.
In papers filed Sept. 22 in federal district court
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A federal watchdog agency wants to know if 340B hospitals give low-income uninsured patients a break on drug prices at their contract and in-house pharmacies as part of the agency’s evaluation of a law that helps some hospitals forced out
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The Arkansas Insurance Department (AID) published a rule this week that gives force to the state’s ground-breaking 2021 law prohibiting drug makers from denying 340B pricing or restricting access to drugs when covered entities contract with pharmacies to dispense 340B
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A federal district court in Arizona has upheld a $23 million arbitration award to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) against pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) CVS Caremark for unfair drug reimbursement.
In its November 2019 lawsuit, AHF alleged that CVS Caremark
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UPDATE Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, 1:00 p.m. EDT—This story was updated to include new information from HRSA.
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is letting eligible healthcare providers in Puerto Rico enroll in the 340B
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Federal lawyers last week agreed with national groups that represent 340B hospitals that the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision to declare illegal Medicare Part B payment cuts in 2018 and 2019 for hospitals’ 340B-purchased drugs “effectively resolves” the groups’ claims
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Arkansas’s first-of-its-kind law requiring drug makers to honor 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies to dispense 340B drugs is not preempted by the federal 340B statute since the state law applies only to the acquisition and delivery of
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