The 340B program—and whether it needs change, protection, or both—came up often today during a U.S. Senate hearing on federal funding of community health centers.
The bulk of health centers’ federal grant funding—about $5.8 billion annually from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s Community Health Center Fund—will expire if not reauthorized by Sept. 30. This morning’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing focused mostly on the fund and other health center funding streams. Health centers’ 340B revenues, drug manufacturer and pharmacy benefit manager threats to those savings, and health centers’ uniqueness among 340B covered entities were part of the conversation.
The 340B program—and whether it needs change, protection, or both—came up often today during a U.S. Senate hearing on federal funding of community health centers.
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