Drug manufacturer Gilead late last week announced a huge cut, effective Jan. 1, 2022, in pharmacy reimbursement for its HIV and hepatitis B medicines that uninsured individuals get for free through Gilead’s Advancing Access patient assistance program (PAP). 340B HIV/AIDS …
Author: Ron Shinkman
New York state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) agreed this week to postpone transferring Medicaid managed care prescription drug benefits to Medicaid fee for service (FFS) for two years, temporarily averting a significant financial loss to 340B covered entities. …
Women have played a key role in the 340B program since its inception nearly 30 years ago. Their historic and ongoing involvement was observed and celebrated in “Notable Women of 340B,” a webinar broadcast by Community Voices for 340B (CV-340B) …
Prisons struggling with the high cost of treating inmates with viral illnesses such as hepatitis C and HIV can turn to the 340B program for relief, but participation is often tricky. …
Nine states are considering legislation to create boards to review prescription drug prices and intervene to lower them if drugs become too expensive or if their prices spike. Although the board’s implications for the 340B program have not been fully …
The Senate committee with direct jurisdiction over the 340B program held its first drug pricing hearing of the 117th Congress Tuesday. It held the session amid signs that House Democrats want to add language to let Medicare negotiate drug prices …
340B hospitals are under significant pressure due to drug manufacturers ending 340B discounts on drugs dispensed by contract pharmacies, hospital advocacy group 340B Health says in its latest annual member survey. …
After what initially appeared to be a rocky path to confirmation and a deadlocked vote in the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, current California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) is widely expected to be confirmed today, shortly after noon Eastern, as …
Federally qualified health centers and their trade groups are adamantly opposed to implementing a Trump administration rule to require health centers to provide insulin and injectable epinephrine to low-income patients at the price the centers pay for those drugs under …
At least six states have introduced or passed bills in recent weeks that would forbid pharmacy benefit managers from discriminating against 340B covered entities regarding reimbursements and other practices. …