Signify Health, a value-based healthcare platform with a network of over 3,000 physician practices and facilities, has signed an agreement to acquire Caravan Health, a company that helps hospitals and health systems with value-based care arrangements maximize 340B savings, the
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A Kansas Republican congressman on Tuesday urged fellow House members in a brief floor speech to “reaffirm our commitment to protecting” the 340B program.
Rep. Jake LaTurner (R-Kan.) congratulated 340B on its 30th anniversary. He said the program “has helped
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Prospects for passage of Democratic drug pricing legislation as part of the Build Back Better (BBB) Act dimmed again last week with news that Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) had a stroke on Jan 27.
Lujan’s chief of staff
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) has issued a draft report concluding four drugs have demonstrated effectiveness and value in reducing hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients. The independent nonprofit group evaluates prescription drugs and medical treatments’ cost effectiveness
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An endowed scholarship at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Eshelman School of Pharmacy has been established in memory of Carl Taylor, the longtime pharmacy director at Piedmont Health Services in Chapel Hill, N.C. Taylor, age 76, died last Sept.
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A federal district judge on Friday held “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli liable for antitrust claims brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and seven states.
U.S. Senior District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York imposed a
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday proposed changing Medicare Part D rules to curb plan sponsors and pharmacy benefit managers’ skyrocketing use of direct and indirect renumeration fees (DIR)—PBMs’ controversial practice of clawing back drug payments to
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A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., late yesterday declined to stop California Medicaid’s transfer of managed care drug coverage to Medicaid fee for service that took effect on Jan. 1. Health centers enrolled in the 340B drug pricing program pledged
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Federally qualified health clinics in California have no right to sue to stop a major state Medicaid drug reimbursement change that began on Jan. 1., the state Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) argued in a legal brief filed Wednesday.
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In his monthly column for Omnicell’s blog, 340B Report Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Ted Slafsky makes three big predictions for the 340B program for 2022. They focus on:
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