Novartis Pharmaceuticals has sued the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) over the agency’s May 17 letter telling the company its restrictions on 340B pricing to covered entities that use contract pharmacies are illegal.
Novartis told 340B Report late
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The Biden administration this afternoon proposed amending the 340B statute to let federal health officials audit 340B covered entities “to determine how net income from purchases under [340B] are used by the covered entity.”
The proposed legislation is included in
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A federal district judge in Indianapolis late this afternoon declined to temporarily restrain federal health officials from requiring drug maker Eli Lilly, based on a May 17 enforcement letter, to provide 340B discounts on drugs dispensed by contract pharmacies. Nonetheless,
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Drug makers Sanofi and Novo Nordisk and the federal government filed briefs Tuesday and Wednesday in federal district court in New Jersey in those two manufacturers’ separate challenges to the contract pharmacy requirements.
Sanofi and Novo Nordisk are seeking emergency
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Federal judges in Delaware and Indiana will hear arguments today in drug manufacturers’ AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly’s separate lawsuits challenging the 340B contract pharmacy requirements.
A judge in Wilmington, Del., earlier this week denied AstraZeneca’s motion for an emergency stay
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Vermont’s legislature has voted to bar pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from requiring claims modifiers on 340B-purchased drugs, except for claims paid directly or indirectly by Medicaid.
PBMs also would be unable to restrict 340B contract pharmacies’ access to pharmacy networks
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Robert Charrow—the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) general counsel who memorably opined that drug companies must offer their products at or below the 340B ceiling price “be it the lunar surface, low-earth orbit, or a neighborhood pharmacy”—has rejoined his
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Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) has asked a federal judge to invalidate a federal regulation that would require drug makers, starting in January 2023, to include the full value of patient financial assistance in their Medicaid best price
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