340B Pricing: Navigating Pharmacy Discount Programs to Benefit Your Entity & Patients

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The 340B statute was written as a drug pricing program that outlines specifically what manufacturers are required to charge qualified covered entities for their drugs based on a defined formula. The intent of the 340B program is to help

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Janssen Providing Refunds for 340B Overcharges During Q1 2020

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Janssen Pharmaceuticals is providing refunds to 340B covered entities for overcharges on 14 NDCs during Q1 2020.

Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals division is providing refunds to 340B covered entities for overcharges on 14 NDCs during Q1 2020.

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) posted J&J’s refund notice yesterday. The company said the 340B

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340B INDUSTRY LEADER SPOTLIGHT

William von Oehsen, Principal, Powers Law Firm

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William "Bill" von Oehsen, Principal, Powers Law Firm
William von Oehsen

Q: Where did you grow up?

Central New Jersey

Q: Where did you go to college/graduate school?

Princeton (AB), Harvard (MTS), Georgetown (JD)

Q: What are your favorites?

Food: Charcuterie

Movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Musicians: Pink Floyd and other “prog” bands from the 70s and 80s

Destination:  Vermont

Q: What do you

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Lilly Says 340B Entities Can’t Designate Central Fill Pharmacies as Contract Pharmacies

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Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has significantly escalated its restrictions on access to 340B pricing in the contract pharmacy setting, the company announced June 19 on the drug industry vendor site 340B ESP.

Drug manufacturer Eli Lilly late last month again updated its conditions on 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.

Lilly was the first company to impose such conditions, starting with one drug in July 2020 then expanding to

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PhRMA Takes its Fight Against Arkansas 340B Law to Federal Appeals Court

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PhRMA has asked the federal appeals court in St. Louis to overturn a lower court's ruling that federal law does not preempt Arkansas’s novel 340B anti-discrimination law.

Brand drug manufacturers have asked a federal appeals court to overturn a judge’s ruling last month that Arkansas’s novel 340B anti-discrimination law is not preempted by the 340B statute nor by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Risk Evaluation and

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Alcon Providing Refunds for 340B Overcharges on 22 Products

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Alcon is providing refunds for charges above 340B ceiling prices on 22 NDCs for varying sales periods from Q3 2019 through Q3 2022.

Swiss eye care drug manufacturer Alcon is providing refunds for charges above 340B ceiling prices on 22 NDCs for varying sales periods from Q3 2019 through Q3 2022.

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration posted Alcon’s public notice about

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House GOP Leadership Spat Stymies All Action, Including Any on 340B

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The split among House Republicans about whether to pick Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) to be House Speaker has ground the chamber to a halt.

The U.S. House was frozen stuck this morning after the new Republican majority splintered yesterday, the first day of the 118th Congress, over who should be the next House speaker.

Representatives cannot be sworn in and the House cannot begin

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Office of Pharmacy Affairs Get Slight Funding Bump

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HRSA plans to host a webinar for federal grantees in the days leading up to the 2024 340B recertification period.

President Biden on Dec. 29 signed a $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2023 that gave the 340B drug pricing program a slight funding boost.

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s Office of Pharmacy Affairs will get

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