AHA Seeks Meeting with HHS About Repaying 340B Hospitals for Illegal Medicare Drug Reimbursement Cuts

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The AHA wants to meet with HHS to hear how the government will repay 340B hospitals for five years’ worth of illegal Medicare Part B drug reimbursement cuts.

The American Hospital Association yesterday asked to meet with the team of federal officials that will decide how the government will repay 340B hospitals for five years’ worth of illegal Medicare Part B drug reimbursement cuts. The amount of refunds

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EMD Serono Is the Second Drug Maker Today to Impose Conditions on 340B Contract Pharmacy, and the 21st Overall

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Beginning Oct. 1, EMD Serono will extend its contract pharmacy restrictions to all 340B covered entities.

EMD Serono today became the 21st pharmaceutical manufacturer to impose conditions on 340B pricing involving drug shipments to contract pharmacies.

Bayer announced conditions on 340B sales involving contract pharmacies earlier today. The companies’ announcements came two days after

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Bayer Is the 20th Drug Maker to Impose Conditions on 340B Contract Pharmacy

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Bayer will no longer exempt federal grantees from its 340B contract pharmacy policy as of Oct. 1.

Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals starting March 1 is imposing limits on hospitals’ replenishment orders of 340B-priced drugs shipped to contract pharmacies. It said it is voluntarily letting 340B grantee covered entities continue to use multiple contract pharmacies to dispense 340B drugs.

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The Day After: Stakeholders Take Stock of Third Circuit Court’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Opinion

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Drug makers "need not help [covered entities] maximize their 340B profits," a federal appeals court in Philadelphia said yesterday in holding that three manufacturers' restrictions on delivery to contract pharmacies do not violate the 340B statute.

Covered entities may still use the 340B program under drug manufacturers’ conditions on the use of contract pharmacies, and while they “cannot squeeze as much revenue out of it as they once could, drug makers need not help them maximize

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Virginia House Subcommittee Defeats 340B Hospital Accountability Bill; Rev. Al Sharpton Says Program Direly Needs More Oversight

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Bon Secours Health System Vice President Rhodes Ritenour testified against proposed Virginia state legislation to require more accountability from 340B hospitals about how they use 340B program revenues. State House Del. Kathy Tran, the bill's sponsor, is seated behind him.

A Virginia House subcommittee last week voted 3-2 against a Democrat’s bill to require more accountability from 340B hospitals about how they use 340B program revenues.

In a reversal of their parties’ normal stances on 340B nationally, Democrats voted for

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Eshoo and Castor Will Be Top Democrats on House E&C Subcommittees Involved in 340B

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U.S. House Energy & Commerce health subcommittee ranking Democrat Anna Eshoo (Calif.) spoke this morning during the full committee's initial organization meeting of the 118th Congress.

U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee Democrats have announced their leaders and members of two subcommittees expected to act on 340B matters this session.

Republicans announced the subcommittees’ chairs and GOP members last week. The Republicans have a narrow

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340B Report Publisher and CEO Slafsky: Three 340B Observations for 2023

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Expect the 340B program to be get signficant attention at the federal and state level this year, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky says.

In his inaugural column for Verity Solutions, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky offers insights “on what to expect in Washington, D.C., and the states in 2023 when it comes to the 340B program.”

Slafsky in the column makes

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Third Circuit Court Rules for Drugmakers in 340B Contract Pharmacy Cases

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A federal appeals court ruled today that the 340B statute does not compel drug manufacturers to deliver 340B-purchased drugs "wherever and to whomever a buyer demands."

A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled 3-0 this morning that “Congress never said that drug makers must deliver discounted Section 340B drugs to an unlimited number of contract pharmacies.”

“By trying to enforce that supposed requirement, the government overstepped

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New York Times 340B Hospital Exposé Leads to a Vote Later Today in a Virginia House Subcommittee

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Virginia Del. Kathy Tran (D) says her bill to to require more accountability from 340B hospitals was prompted by The New York Times' investigation of alleged 340B program misuse detrimental to a Richmond hospital in a predominantly Black neighborhood.

A Virginia House subcommittee is voting later today on a Democrat’s bill to require more accountability from 340B hospitals—a direct consequence of The New York Times’ exposé about alleged 340B program misuse involving a Richmond, Va., hospital.

The scheduled vote

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New York State Medicaid Drug Benefit Transfer, on Ice for Two Years, Is Back

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“It’s not hyperbole to say if this is put into place, we’re going to have to cut services and cut staffing," Mark Malahosky of Trillium Health says of New York State's plan to shift Medicaid managed care prescription drug benefits into Medicaid fee for service.

With a two-year implementation delay nearly over, New York State is poised to fold its Medicaid managed care prescription drug benefits into its Medicaid fee for service system on April 1. State 340B health care providers that serve high volumes

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