Two federal health officials with long track records managing key aspects of the 340B program are playing pivotal roles in a major overhaul of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky last month named Mary
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The U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services encouraged health care providers on its blog last month “to prepare for the end” of its COVID-19 waivers and flexibilities “as soon as possible and to begin moving forward to reestablishing previous
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Correction, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, 3:00 p.m. EDT—The original version of this article mistakenly said the hospital plaintiffs’ complaint stated that HHS improperly based 2020 and 2021 Medicare Part B drug payment cuts for 340B hospitals on a survey of
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Federal health officials should not be allowed to craft their own plan to remedy unlawful Medicare Part B drug payments cuts for 340B hospitals since 2018, as the government has not shown how it would stop future illegal payment cuts,
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The U.S. government and drug makers Novartis and United Therapeutics’ cross-appeals in their 340B contract pharmacy legal dispute have been set for oral arguments in October, marking the first of the closely watched lawsuits to advance to oral arguments at
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President Joe Biden this afternoon is scheduled to sign legislation that for the first time will let Medicare negotiate the prices of certain costly prescription drugs and require drug makers to pay Medicare rebates when their prices outpace inflation.
House
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The U.S. Senate on Sunday passed historic legislation to let Medicare negotiate the prices of a small number of costly medicines and require drug manufacturers to pay Medicare rebates when prices paid by Medicare rise faster than inflation.
Language in
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Healthcare providers can suppress attacks on and build support for the 340B program by doing more to show the program helps vulnerable patients, the anesthesiologist who served as President Trump’s surgeon general said yesterday.
“We are fighting to deliver care
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Senate Democrats said yesterday they would know this week whether an updated Senate drug pricing bill meets the criteria for passage via budget reconciliation, which requires just 50 Democratic votes. The bill remains on track for a floor vote before
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The brand drug industry’s recent full-page ad in The Washington Post saying the 340B program helps big hospitals and chain pharmacies but not patients is “hypocritical slander,” AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein said last week.
“PhRMA calling for drug price
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