E&C Health Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on PBM Practices, Trump Backs GOP House Budget Plan With Health Spending Cuts

The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee will hold a Feb. 26 hearing on PBM practices.
A U.S. House subcommittee will hear testimony next week on how “reining in” pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) could improve drug [...]

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Drug Industry-Funded Study Finds 340B Contract Pharmacy Bills Costly to Employer Health Plans and States; Critics Slam Its Methodology and Funding Source

IQVIA examined how state 340B contract pharmacy access bills could affect state and local governments in a Feb. 4 white paper funded by the National Pharmaceutical Council.
340B contract pharmacy access bills could cost states millions and employer health plans more, according to a new study funded [...]

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UPDATED: North Carolina GOP Lawmaker Lauds NYC Health System After Asking for Financial, 340B Program Info Following Super Bowl Ad

U.S. Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) praised NYU Langone Health after previously asking the health system to detail how much it spent on a Super Bowl ad and provide information about its 340B program.
A Republican congressman praised NYU Langone Health’s “prudent financial management” Wednesday—just days after publicly pressing the New York City health [...]

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Senate Confirms RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary on 52-48 Vote Largely Along Party Lines

The U.S. Senate voted 52-48 on Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the new Health and Human Services secretary.
The U.S. Senate voted largely along party lines Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s pick [...]

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Congressional GOP Leaders Consider Budget Proposals That Call for Deep Health Spending Cuts

Congressional Republicans this week unveiled and began marking up budget plans that call for major cuts to federal healthcare spending.
Congressional Republicans this week unveiled and began marking up budget plans that call for major cuts to federal healthcare spending—which [...]

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Engels Again Takes the Helm at Key 340B Agency

Former HRSA administrator Tom Engels has returned to lead the agency tasked with overseeing the 340B program.
Tom Engels, who served as Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) administrator during the last two years of President Donald [...]

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Hospital Group, Hospitals Look to Join Lawsuits Challenging 340B Rebate Proposals; J&J Seeks Expedited Court Action

340B Health and two member hospitals filed motions with the U.S. District Court for D.C. that sought to intervene in four drugmakers' lawsuits against the Health Resources and Services Administration.
A national group representing 1,500-plus 340B hospitals and two of its members have filed to intervene in federal court cases [...]

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Vertex Adds Pain Medication to 340B Contract Pharmacy Restrictions

Vertex announced on Feb. 4 that its contract pharmacy restrictions policy would immediately apply to Journavx.
A Boston-based drugmaker recently added a newly approved non-opiate pain treatment to the list of drugs subject to its 340B [...]

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State Contract Pharmacy Lawsuit Weekly Roundup: Updates in Missouri and Mississippi

Key briefs were recently filed in litigation over state contract pharmacy access laws in Missouri and Mississippi.
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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Dark Money Group Gave Anti-340B PAC Nearly $5M in 2024, Influential PR Firm Raked in Over $300,000

Stand for US PAC reported receiving a total of more than $4.8 million from Building America's Future, a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit that does not disclose its donors, in 2024.
Building America’s Future (BAF), a powerful conservative dark money group with ties to the Trump administration, contributed almost $5 million [...]

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