Connecticut’s Democratic governor wants his state’s 340B hospitals to start filing annual reports disclosing their 340B drug revenues and summarizing how they use the money to benefit their communities. Health centers and other 340B grantee covered entities would be exempt
…Articles by : Tom Mirga, Editor at Large
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), who has a long track record of support for 340B covered entities, is the new leader of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee with influence over 340B policy.
Baldwin announced yesterday she will serve as chair
…Health care providers in the coming months may get previously unavailable access to 340B pricing on contrast agents, radiopharmaceuticals, and so-called “OTC monograph” drugs thanks to language tucked into the massive fiscal year 2023 federal spending bill signed into law
…Seema Verma, ex-President Trump’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator, said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed yesterday that large health systems work to expand their use of the 340B program “and thus their profit and monopoly power.”
“Across
…The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking comments by March 11 on “the most reliable way to identify” 340B-purchased drugs dispensed to Medicare Part D beneficiaries so they can be excluded from new Part D inflation rebate
…U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the new chair of the Senate committee that oversees the 340B program, recently answered a reporter’s question about alleged hospital abuse of 340B by noting that he tried to revoke a Burlington, Vt., hospital’s tax-exempt
…While most 340B covered entities do not share their contract pharmacy claims data with drug makers to restore access to 340B pricing, many would do so if the process was better and got 340B pricing turned back on reliably, a
…The fight over 340B contract pharmacy loomed large in stakeholders’ comments last week on a proposed federal regulation to revamp the 340B program’s administrative dispute resolution system.
Health care provider groups, citing manufacturers’ contract pharmacy policies, said they want the
…While the 340B program “has merit when used as intended,” it has “strayed far from its original purpose, creating a profit stream that is enriching middlemen versus benefitting patients,” drug manufacturer Bayer told 340B Report yesterday.
Bayer gave the statement
…The Biden administration said on Monday that it plans to end the nationwide COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11. When the PHE ends, COVID-related 340B program flexibilities announced in March 2020 could end too.
The U.S. Health Resources and
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