PhRMA Says More than Half of Pharmacy and Provider Profits on Brand Drug Sales Come Through 340B

New research looked at the prices 340B-enrolled pediatric hospitals charged for pediatric oncology drugs.

More than half (52%) of the $81 billion that U.S. pharmacies and health care providers collected in 2020 in reimbursement from payers for brand-name prescription drugs came through pharmacy and provider participation in the 340B program, up from 14% of

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In a Big Relief for 340B Providers, Sen. Thune Will Run Again

U.S. Sen. John Thune (S.D.), a staunch 340B provider ally and the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, announced over the weekend he will seek re-election in November.

340B providers are sighing relief after U.S. Sen. John Thune (S.D.), a staunch 340B provider ally and the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, announced over the weekend he will seek re-election in November.

Thune announced that he was running on

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N.Y. State and Va. Health Centers Ask Fed. Judge to Let their 340B-Related Antitrust Suit Against Drug Makers Go on

New York state health center Mosaic Health and its co-plaintiff Central Virginia Health Services are opposing four insulin and diabetes drug manufacturers’ motion to dismiss their antitrust class action over the companies’ denials of 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.

New York state and Virginia health centers on Friday asked a federal district judge to deny four insulin and diabetes drug manufacturers’ motion to dismiss the health centers’ antitrust class action over the companies’ denials of 340B pricing when covered

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Appeals Court Signals it Might Send Lilly’s 340B Lawsuit Back to Lower Court

A federal circuit court has suspended Lilly’s 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit on technical grounds and might send it back to a lower court.

A federal circuit court on Tuesday halted drug manufacturer Lilly and the federal government’s appeals of a district judge’s late October ruling in Lilly’s 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit, on technical grounds. It’s the second time the case has run into

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Judge in AstraZeneca’s 340B Case, on Verge of Big Promotion, Gives Parties Just Two Days for a Status Report

The judge in AstraZeneca’s 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit, who could be elevated soon to a federal appeals court, indicated this week that his decision in the case is still in progress.

The judge in AstraZeneca’s 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit yesterday ordered both sides to file a joint status report by no later than Friday—a sign, lawyers say, that his decision in the case is still in progress.

U.S. District Judge Leonard

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Carole Johnson Takes Charge of HRSA and the 340B Program

Carole Johnson's tenure as HRSA administrator officially began this week Tuesday.

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the agency that runs the 340B drug pricing program, has a permanent leader again for the first time in almost a year.

Carole Johnson started in her position as HRSA administrator on

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Drug Makers Want to Halt 340B Dispute Resolution Proceedings, Citing Lawsuits and Forthcoming Rule

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AstraZeneca and Sanofi have asked 340B administrative dispute resolution panels to pause covered entities’ ADR proceedings against them.

Drug manufacturers AstraZeneca and Sanofi have asked 340B administrative dispute resolution panels to pause covered entities’ ADR proceedings against them until all 340B-related federal court litigation is finished and until after the government finalizes its forthcoming new 340B ADR regulation.

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Feds Back and Kalderos Resists Pausing Company’s 340B Lawsuit

Kalderos says in a lawsuit that the federal government's 340B contract pharmacy policy is keeping it from effectively marketing its 340B Pay service to let drug companies provide 340B pricing as a post-purchase rebate rather than as a price discount.

The federal government told a judge in late December its appeal of her joint ruling in Novartis and United Therapeutics’ (UT) 340B contract pharmacy lawsuits justifies her pausing drug industry vendor Kalderos’ 340B contract pharmacy suit.

Kalderos told the judge

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Biden Axing Trump’s “Most Favored Nation” Drug Pricing Rule that 340B Entities and Pharma Both Disliked

The Biden administration is rescinding ex-President Trump's unimplemented most favored nation drug pricing rule, which was disliked by 340B entities and drug manufacturers.

The Biden administration is rescinding an unimplemented Trump-era regulation that would have pegged Medicare Part B drug reimbursement for 50 expensive, physician-administered drugs on the lowest price that drug manufacturers provide in similar countries.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare &

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Breaking News

Breaking News: AbbVie Becomes 11th Drug Maker to Restrict 340B Contract Pharmacy. Feds Appeal Rulings in Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi Cases.

AbbVie will no longer offer voluntary 340B pricing on any of its orphan-designated drugs to covered entities subject to such exclusions.

Biopharmaceutical company AbbVie—maker of the expensive and widely prescribed immunosuppressive medication Humira—today became the 11th drug manufacturer to announce conditions on 340B pricing when contract pharmacies dispense medicines to patients.

Starting Feb. 1, AbbVie will require hospitals to submit claims

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