CMS Offers New Details on Medicare Drug Price Negotiations, 340B Advocates Raise Concerns About Impact on Program

340B stakeholders raised concerns about May 12 draft guidance on the IRA Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program's “manufacturer effectuation of the maximum fair price in 2026, 2027 and 2028,” among other things.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released new details this week to help stakeholders navigate the Inflation Reduction [...]

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J&J, Lilly and GSK to Refund 340B Covered Entities for Overcharges

Johnson & Johnson and two other major drugmakers recently announced refunds for 340B covered entities that purchased certain drugs in 2022 and 2023.
Three major drugmakers recently announced refunds for 340B covered entities that purchased certain drugs in 2022 and 2023 following recalculations [...]

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Cassidy Staffer, ASAP 340B Head Call for 340B Program Reforms, Comment on Proposed Shift to CMS

Jeffrey Last, U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy’s (R-La.) legislative lead on 340B, highlighted the findings and recommendations of the HELP Committee chairman’s late-April report on the 340B program at a June 4 webinar.
A key health policy staffer for U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-La.) recently [...]

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Sandoz to Stop Notifying CEs of 340B Contract Pharmacy Changes, Joins Liquidia in Adding Restrictions to New Drugs; Novartis Updates Restrictions

Sandoz announced in a June 4 notice to covered entities it “will no longer be providing additional notification for product changes to [its] contract pharmacy policy.”
Two drugmakers recently added new medications to the list of drugs subject to their respective 340B contract pharmacy restrictions—one of [...]

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Premier Asks Court to Reject HRSA’s Defense of 340B Hospital Drug Purchasing Restrictions Policy, Requests Oral Arguments

Premier again asked a Washington D.C. federal court to strike down a HRSA policy that restricts how certain 340B hospitals can purchase initial drug inventory.
A major group purchasing organization (GPO) recently urged a Washington D.C. federal court to reject the federal government’s defense of [...]

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State Contract Pharmacy Lawsuit Roundup: Drugmakers File Briefs in 5th Circuit Appeals Case, Updates in Utah and Nebraska

Key briefs were filed in litigation on contract pharmacy access laws in Louisiana, Utah and Nebraska.
Editor’s Note: With 340B-related litigation heating up in several states following the enactment of new contract pharmacy access laws, 340B [...]

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340B Stakeholders Offer Mixed Views on Trump’s Plan to Move Drug Pricing Program to CMS

340B advocates and stakeholders offered mixed reactions to President Donald Trump's HHS budget request, which called for moving the 340B program to CMS.
340B stakeholders and attorneys offered mixed initial reactions this week to President Donald Trump’s proposal to move the 340B program [...]

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Katie Miller, Key Player in Anti-340B ‘Dark Money’ Campaign, Leaves White House Adviser Role

Katie Miller, a key figure in a dark money anti-340B campaign, has left her role as a White House adviser.
A Trump administration adviser and key figure in a dark money effort to tie the 340B program to immigration growth, [...]

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Cassidy Says 340B ‘Was Never Meant to be Part of an Earnings Call’

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) discussed the 340B program in a recent interview with Punchbowl News.
A key U.S. senator on 340B policy continued to raise concerns this week about the current state of the drug [...]

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BI Asks Tennessee Contract Pharmacies to Report Claims Data Ahead of New State Law, BMS Updates Contract Pharmacy Restrictions

Boehringer Ingelheim announced new 340B claims data requirements for Tennessee covered entities.
Tennessee covered entities must now submit claims data for all Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) 340B drugs filled by their in-house pharmacies [...]

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