As President Biden and House Democrats prepare to unveil their drug pricing game plans, 340B stakeholders eagerly await word on key provisions that could either be helpful or result in significant lost revenue. While the proposals are going to be
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Articles by : Tom Mirga, Editor at Large
North Carolina lawmakers are debating whether to grant all 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies, or only some, protection against discrimination by pharmacy benefit managers.
Last week Thursday, state House and Senate leaders appointed members to a conference committee
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A U.S. Supreme Court decision in late June about the appointment of federal administrative patent judges (APJs) could influence the outcome of several ongoing lawsuits over the 340B program’s administrative dispute resolution (ADR) process.
On June 21, the high court
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Breaking: Merck Will End 340B Contract Pharmacy Pricing for Hospitals That Don’t Share their Claims Data
Drug manufacturer Merck has begun informing 340B covered entities that, effective Sept. 1, it will stop providing 340B pricing to hospitals that partner with 340B contract pharmacies unless the hospitals share 340B claims data with its vendor 340B ESP.
Hospitals
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Federal officials relied “on sound statutory interpretation and sufficient evidence” when it concluded in May that United Therapeutics (UT) broke the law when it conditioned access to 340B pricing on its products, government lawyers told a federal district judge in
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Drug manufacturer AstraZeneca and the federal government each told a federal district court last Friday why it, and not the other, should prevail in Astra’s lawsuit over the government’s 340B contract pharmacy requirements.
The Aug. 6 filings were the latest
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President Biden this morning called on Congress to let Medicare negotiate drug prices and penalize drug companies that raise their prices faster than inflation.
Biden said lawmakers should establish a firm cap on the amount that Medicare beneficiaries have to
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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted 69-30 to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes two drug pricing provisions, neither directly 340B-related. The bill now moves to the U.S. House, which is on a seven-week summer break. The $1 trillion
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