Astellas Notifies 340B Entities About Antifungal’s Updated NDC

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Astellas says the old and new NDCs for its antifungal drug Cresemba are interchangeable in compliant 340B inventory replenishment models.

Drug manufacturer Astellas will let 340B covered entities using “a compliant 340B inventory replenishment model” count accumulations of its antifungal Cresemba under its old National Drug Code toward replenishment of equal quantities under the product’s corresponding new NDC, the company

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End 340B, Commentary in New England Journal of Medicine Suggests

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Policymakers should consider disbanding the 340B program, a student and a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine say in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Policymakers should consider disbanding the 340B program “given its negative reverberations for patients and markets,” a student and a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine wrote in a commentary in the latest edition of the New England Journal

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MedPAC Votes to Recommend Ditching Medicare DSH Patient Percentage for Medicare Purposes

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MedPAC thinks CMS should stop using the Medicare DSH patient percentage for Medicare purposes. The 340B program uses the DSH calculation for hospital eligibility purposes.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, as expected, has voted to recommend that Congress should start phasing in a new way of distributing extra Medicare payments to safety net hospitals that disproportionately serve low-income and/or uninsured beneficiaries.

The proposal that

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The Mpox Outbreak: What a Swift Response Looks Like

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The monkeypox (renamed mpox by the World Health Organization) outbreak took the world by storm in early May of 2022 on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) was among the first public health organizations to sound the

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Ryan White Clinics for 340B Access Is Dropping its 340B Dispute Resolution Lawsuit

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RWC-340B is dropping is lawsuit that helped prod HRSA to issue long-delayed 340B dispute resolution rules.

Ryan White Clinics for 340B Access is dropping its lawsuit that, together with a related case, led federal health officials to issue long-delayed dispute resolution rules for the 340B program in December 2020.

RWC-340B, five co-plaintiff 340B covered entities, and

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Pennsylvania Rescinds Directive that Contract Pharmacies May Not Dispense 340B Drugs to Medicaid Beneficiaries

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Pennsylvania rescinded a new Medicaid policy document that said contract pharmacies could not dispense 340B-purchased drugs to Medicaid beneficiaries.

The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services yesterday rescinded Medicaid policy guidance dated Dec. 22 and effective Jan. 1 that forbade 340B covered entities’ contract pharmacies from dispensing 340B-purchased drugs to Medicaid beneficiaries.

The state primary care association warned that the

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Oregon Bill Targets PBM Policies that Discriminate Against 340B Pharmacies

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A bill in Oregon would prohibit discriminatory practices by PBMs and insurance plans against 340B pharmacies.

Oregon legislators have introduced a bill that would prohibit discriminatory practices by pharmacy benefit managers and insurance plans against 340B pharmacies, including reimbursing a 340B pharmacy less for prescription drugs compared with non-340B pharmacies. 

If passed later this year, House

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Federal Court Seals HRSA’s Records in Health Center’s 340B Patient Definition Lawsuit

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The Biden administration will not appeal a high-profile November federal court ruling on the 340B patient definition.

A federal district court in South Carolina yesterday sealed the federal government’s records of the audit, expulsion, and reinstatement of a health center for allegedly diverting 340B-acquired drugs to ineligible patients.

The court order was in Genesis Health Care’s lawsuit

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340B Recertification for HRSA and Indian Health Service Grantees Starts Jan. 30

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Annual recertification of 340B eligibility for federally qualified health centers and most other grantee-type entities will start Jan. 30 and end Feb. 27.

Annual recertification of 340B eligibility for federally qualified health centers and most other grantee-type entities will start Jan. 30 and end Feb. 27, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration said yesterday.

HRSA did not say when Title X family

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Improve Quality Outcomes with ACOs and 340B

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Increasingly, participants in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are discovering and benefiting from the 340B drug discount program. Unlike the historic fee-for-service healthcare models, ACOs are rewarded for outcomes that are better aligned with value-based population health, including improved patient care outcomes, an

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