While the 340B program “has merit when used as intended,” it has “strayed far from its original purpose, creating a profit stream that is enriching middlemen versus benefitting patients,” drug manufacturer Bayer told 340B Report yesterday.
Bayer gave the statement
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The Biden administration said on Monday that it plans to end the nationwide COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11. When the PHE ends, COVID-related 340B program flexibilities announced in March 2020 could end too.
The U.S. Health Resources and
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The American Hospital Association yesterday asked to meet with the team of federal officials that will decide how the government will repay 340B hospitals for five years’ worth of illegal Medicare Part B drug reimbursement cuts. The amount of refunds
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EMD Serono today became the 21st pharmaceutical manufacturer to impose conditions on 340B pricing involving drug shipments to contract pharmacies.
Bayer announced conditions on 340B sales involving contract pharmacies earlier today. The companies’ announcements came two days after
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Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals starting March 1 is imposing limits on hospitals’ replenishment orders of 340B-priced drugs shipped to contract pharmacies. It said it is voluntarily letting 340B grantee covered entities continue to use multiple contract pharmacies to dispense 340B drugs.
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Covered entities may still use the 340B program under drug manufacturers’ conditions on the use of contract pharmacies, and while they “cannot squeeze as much revenue out of it as they once could, drug makers need not help them maximize
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A Virginia House subcommittee last week voted 3-2 against a Democrat’s bill to require more accountability from 340B hospitals about how they use 340B program revenues.
In a reversal of their parties’ normal stances on 340B nationally, Democrats voted for
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Recent surveys confirm what those of you reading this know painfully well: Hospital and clinic pharmacies are struggling from the restrictions drug manufacturers are placing on 340B pricing at contract pharmacy sites. As the 340B world awaits another batch of court rulings
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