A federal district judge in Washington, D.C., yesterday ordered community health centers to answer why she should not dismiss their lawsuit against federal health officials over the administrative dispute resolution process for the 340B program.
Judge Florence Pan of U.S.
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Congressional Medicare advisers are weighing whether to recommend converting the 6% add-on to Part B drug reimbursement to a fixed fee capped at $175 for drugs that cost $15,000 or more, phased in starting with drugs costing above $700.
Medicare
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told members of Congress on Thursday that his department is doing all it can with the tools it has to address drug manufacturers’ denials of 340B pricing involving contract pharmacies.
If lawmakers
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The potential cost to the U.S. government next year of remedying unlawful Medicare Part B drug payment cuts for 340B hospitals could be higher than federal Medicare officials think.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in mid-July put
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Generic drug manufacturer Unichem Pharmaceuticals USA must repay 340B covered entities for overcharges found during a 340B program compliance audit, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) said yesterday.
HRSA has been auditing five drug manufacturers per year for
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Congress and the White House should let financially distressed critical access hospitals keep their 340B drug discounts if they opt under a new law to downgrade into emergency hospitals to remain solvent, rural health advocates told federal health officials in
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The landmark prescription drug pricing legislation that President Joe Biden signed this month is a mixed bag for 340B stakeholders, 340B Health Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky says in his latest column for Omnicell.
Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act on
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Last September, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) published a drug manufacturers’ notice to 340B covered entities that it was limiting distribution of a medicine that alleviates a side effect of HIV/AIDS treatment.
It was the fifth limited
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A federal district judge on Tuesday gave federal health officials a Sept. 22 deadline to respond to a higher court’s ruling last month that a South Carolina health center has the right to challenge the legality of the government’s 340B
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U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) has reintroduced a comprehensive health care bill he sponsored during the last session of Congress that would create new reporting requirements for 340B disproportionate share (DSH), children’s, and free-standing cancer hospitals and their child sites.
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