UPDATE Friday, March 31, 2023, 6:45 p.m. EDT—Story updated with comment from the National Association of Community Health Centers.
Drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline this afternoon announced a major expansion of its conditions on 340B pricing in the contract
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Drug manufacturer Pfizer today stiffened its conditions on 340B sales to hospitals of the immunosuppressant Xeljanz, one of its top-selling products.
Starting May 1, Pfizer will let hospitals without an in-house pharmacy designate just one contract pharmacy for Xeljanz. Pfizer
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ASAP 340B, the nonprofit group that the drug industry and health centers formed to help advance their joint plan to remake the 340B program, has hired an executive director and published an FAQ that responds to questions and criticism. “There
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation held two demonstrations Tuesday—one outdoors and loud, the other indoors and silent—at the 340B Coalition winter conference in California to protest against the new drug industry/community health center alliance to change the 340B program.
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If New York State transfers Medicaid managed care drug benefits to Medicaid fee for service on Saturday as scheduled, “it will all but eliminate the savings that safety-net providers have realized through the 340B program and the revenues on which
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Health care providers in Mississippi eligible to participate in the 340B program may do so immediately, rather than having to wait for the next normal quarterly registration period July 1-15, federal health officials said yesterday.
Strong tornadoes struck the state
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said today that the 340B program “doesn’t have the transparency we need” and “we are going to do what we can to make it more transparent.”
Becerra was asked about the drug
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Drug manufacturer AbbVie this morning significantly tightened its restrictions on 340B pricing for hospitals.
AbbVie has not yet responded to a request for comment about the changes. Non-hospital covered entities continue to be exempt from AbbVie’s pricing restrictions.
Drug manufacturers
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The 340B program was discussed at length today during a U.S. House subcommittee hearing on price transparency and consolidation in health care, with three Republicans questioning whether hospitals are abusing the program and two Democrats and a Republican cautioning against
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