About 100 safety-net provider advocates marched and chanted yesterday on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol to raise awareness in Congress and beyond about threats to the 340B drug pricing program.
The demonstration, organized by Community Voices for 340B (CV340B),
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Healthcare providers can suppress attacks on and build support for the 340B program by doing more to show the program helps vulnerable patients, the anesthesiologist who served as President Trump’s surgeon general said yesterday.
“We are fighting to deliver care
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Groups that represent 340B hospitals yesterday asked a federal district judge in Washington, D.C., to immediately halt a nearly 30% Medicare Part B payment cut in place since 2018 for hospitals’ 340B-purchased drugs.
American Hospital Association, America’s Essential Hospitals, Association
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Patients receiving inpatient care at 340B disproportionate share hospitals are significantly more likely to be low income than those receiving outpatient care, according to a new study funded by the brand name drug trade group PhRMA.
Hospital eligibility in the
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Q: Where did you grow up?
I had the honor to grow up with both of my parents serving in the Air Force so we did move around a fair amount in my younger years. However, I spent the majority of my childhood in Tuscola, IL, just 30 minutes from Champaign, home of University of Illinois.
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Purdue Pharma’s Avrio Health subsidiary is giving 340B covered entities refunds for overcharges on Betasept antiseptic surgical scrub for purchases spanning 16 years—from Q2 2005 through Q2 2021. That period covers more than half of the 340B program’s existence.
During
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Top federal 340B program officials and the head of a 340B hospital group yesterday urged covered entity representatives attending a meeting near Washington, D.C., to focus on documenting and telling their 340B success stories.
The need to show that 340B
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Senate Democrats said yesterday they would know this week whether an updated Senate drug pricing bill meets the criteria for passage via budget reconciliation, which requires just 50 Democratic votes. The bill remains on track for a floor vote before
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Q: Where did you grow up?
I grew up in New Orleans as a young child and then in Brazil during most of my teens.
Q: Where did you go to college?
I went to Loyola University for undergrad and majored in business management/accounting;. Then I went on to Western Governors University in Utah for my masters
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