CVS Health Corp. has asked a New York state court to dismiss the state’s antitrust lawsuit alleging that the pharmacy chain is forcing the state’s 340B covered entities to use its 340B third party administrator Wellpartner as a condition for
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Articles by : Laura Gilcrest, Contributor
The U.S. Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) has ordered South Carolina-based VistaPharm, a manufacturer of generic and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs to repay overcharges to 340B covered entities after a HRSA audit showed the company did not offer its products at the
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Sparked by the dismissal of its complaint against Astra Zeneca and Sanofi by the government’s Administrative Dispute Resolution Panel (ADR), the National Association of Community Health Centers say “they cannot wait any longer for a solution,” to the two-year standoff
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340B stakeholders are responding to a long investigative article in Saturday’s New York Times that accuses a Catholic health system of exploiting the 340B discount program at the expense of one of its inner-city hospitals to enrich its other hospitals
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340B disproportionate share hospitals (DSH) in 2020 spent 2.2 times more on outpatient drugs per commercially insured patient than non-340B DSH hospitals and 2.6 times more than other types of 340B hospitals, a new drug industry-funded study shows.
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The Arkansas Insurance Department (AID) published a rule this week that gives force to the state’s ground-breaking 2021 law prohibiting drug makers from denying 340B pricing or restricting access to drugs when covered entities contract with pharmacies to dispense 340B
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Arkansas’s first-of-its-kind law requiring drug makers to honor 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies to dispense 340B drugs is not preempted by the federal 340B statute since the state law applies only to the acquisition and delivery of
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About 8.3% of people in the United States, or 27.2 million, had no health insurance at any point during 2021, down from an estimated 8.6%, or 28.3 million, in 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
The National Center for
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The Commonwealth Fund, a well-respected think tank focused on promoting a high-performance and equitable healthcare system, published a primer on the 340B program last week, highlighting the program’s growth and the controversy its growth has sparked.
“We did the report
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U.S. Public Health Service Rear Adm. Krista Pedley, a top official at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and former longtime head of the 340B drug pricing program, has been selected by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
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