The Colorado General Assembly has voted to stop health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), and other third-party payers from discriminating against 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies.
…Tom Mirga
The U.S. uninsured rate fell slightly in 2021 to 9.2% (about 30 million people), down from 9.7% (about 31.6 million people) in 2020, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reports.
…Drug manufacturers’ conditions on 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies violate federal law and ultimately diminish states’ public health efforts, 25 states told two federal appeals courts yesterday.
…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
…The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) yesterday announced 340B program enrollment flexibilities in New Mexico due to the declaration of a public health emergency in the state.
…Twenty-five states are backing the federal government in litigation before two federal appeals courts over drug manufacturers’ denials of 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.
…Drug manufacturer Mallinckrodt’s SpecGx generic pharmaceutical subsidiary is providing refunds for 340B overcharges on 22 NDCs for purchases from Q3 2019 through Q2 2020.
…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
…Drug manufacturers are asking Michigan state legislators to erase language in a new state law that Michigan hospitals say bars the companies from withholding 340B pricing if a covered entity refuses to hand over its contract pharmacy claims
…Letting drug manufacturers put conditions on 340B drug discounts “would be akin to letting the fox guard the henhouse,” the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) told federal appeals courts in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., last night in a pair
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