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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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California health centers asked a federal district judge yesterday to stop a major state Medicaid drug reimbursement change due to begin tomorrow. They say the change would strip away all their 340B drug discount savings, devastating safety-net
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U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has suggested that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) be empowered to negotiate drug prices on behalf of Medicare, an initiative that may impact the 340B program if it should come to fruition.
…Boston-based par8o, which provides 340B services including a platform to help 340B covered entities manage their patient referral claims, has been acquired by Cloudmed.
Cloudmed is a revenue intelligence company based in Atlanta. The company partners with over
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340B hospitals’ challenge to Medicare Part B drug reimbursement cuts was not the only case on the U.S. Supreme Court docket this week that could have a significant impact on the program.
On Monday, the justices heard the
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