Sparked by the dismissal of its complaint against Astra Zeneca and Sanofi by the government’s Administrative Dispute Resolution Panel (ADR), the National Association of Community Health Centers say “they cannot wait any longer for a solution,” to the two-year standoff
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Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) announced September 20th that it is acquiring the remaining 30% stake in 340B specialty pharmacy company Shields Health Solutions that it did not already own. WBA first invested in Shields in July 2019. Last year, it spent
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Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), U.S. congresswoman for the 21st district in upstate New York and third highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, visited independently-owned Condo Pharmacy in Plattsburgh, N.Y., last week in a show of support for the 340B contract pharmacy
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’s watchdog agency, is conducting a study of a new law that enables hospitals to maintain or regain their 340B eligibility despite having fallen below the minimum required Medicare disproportionate share (DSH) adjustment percentage due
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The U.S. Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA), the department within the U.S Health and Resources Administration that oversees the 340B program, would receive a $2 million increase in funding under a bill that passed through a major House committee last
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With more than six months to go in the year, the number of refunds that drug manufacturers have had to provide to 340B providers has already topped the previous annual record of 17. Drug manufacturer Novo Nordisk becomes the 21st manufacturer to
An American Action Forum (AAF) data analysis that connects increases in consumer drug spending with the introduction of 340B drug discount and Medicaid drug rebate program policies “is spurious at best,” says an expert on prescription drug costs whose research
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In a major blow to the 340B provider community, U.S. Rep. David McKinley, the leading voice for the 340B program in the House Republican caucus, was defeated Tuesday in the West Virginia Republican primary. McKinley will remain in office until
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Drug manufacturers and hospitals “will likely continue to test the bounds” of the 340B program until Congress passes legislation addressing multiple concerns about it, a University of Southern California (USC) health policy research fellow says in a new white paper.
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