News Flash: State Attorney General Orders Sanofi to Hand Over 340B Information

So far, none of the other drug companies denying or imposing conditions on 340B pricing on contract pharmacy drugs have publicly reported being subpoenaed by Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan.

Vermont State Attorney General T.J. Donovan (D) has issued a subpoena to drug manufacturer Sanofi “seeking certain information about Sanofi’s 340B program participation,” the company disclosed last week.

Neither Sanofi nor Donovan’s office have responded to requests for comment. Sanofi

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Providers Worried About Humana’s 340B Claims ID and Data-Reporting Conditions

An Alabama health system is suing Humana over past reduced 340B rates paid by its Medicare Advantage plans.

Health insurance company Humana has begun sending pharmacy provider agreements for 2022 to 340B-participating pharmacies, with claims-identification and data-reporting conditions that some 340B providers say are unsettling. They say the agreements are to be signed and returned within 30 days

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COVID-19 Relief Bill Includes Many Provisions Affecting 340B Providers

A screen capture of the Congressional Record for March 5 documenting the Senate's passage of nearly $2 trillion in pandemic relief.

The U.S. Senate voted 50 to 49 along party lines early Saturday morning to approve an amended version of the House’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. According to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s (D-Md.) office, the House could vote on

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Hospitals Want Role in Three More Pharma Lawsuits Over 340B Contract Pharmacy

Hospital groups want to intervene in opposition to three more drug manufacturers' lawsuits against the federal government over 340B contract pharmacy requirements.

Hospital groups that recently filed a motion to intervene in opposition to drug manufacturer Eli Lilly’s lawsuit against the federal government over 340B contract pharmacy requirements also are trying to intervene in similar suits against the government by manufacturers AstraZeneca,

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Senator Cassidy Again Cites 340B in Opposing Becerra for HHS Secretary

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) yesterday criticized HHS Secretary-designate Xavier Becerra's lack of familiarity with 340B before voting in the Finance Committee against reporting Becerra's nomination favorably to the full Senate.

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee yesterday split 14-14 along party lines on whether to favorably report California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s nomination to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary to the full Senate.

There is a 50-50

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Orphan Drug Study’s Authors Say Findings May Warrant Lifting 340B Exemption

Humira, one of the 15 partial orphan drugs examined in the new study in Health Affairs, had $13.7 billion in sales in 2018.

More than 70 percent of U.S. spending on top-selling “partial orphan drugs”—drugs for rare diseases that also are approved to treat common diseases—is for non-orphan indications, a study in latest edition of Health Affairs concludes.

Makers of partial orphan drugs

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Senate Democrats Soften, But Don’t Yank, COVID Relief Bill’s Medicaid Rebate Language

In a concession to drug companies, Senate Democrats reportedly have agreed to delay by one year—from Jan. 1, 2023 to Jan. 1, 2024—the effective date of language in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that might lead to 340B ceiling

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340B Report Publisher/CEO: Look for a Return to an Era of 340B Guidance

Recent developments in federal court bode well for 340B providers trying to restore access to 340B pricing in the contract pharmacy setting, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky’s take in his latest column for the Omnicell blog

The Biden administration’s embrace of the federal government’s traditional stance on the enforceability of program guidance—which the Trump administration rejected—may lead to stronger enforcement of 340B program guidance and possibly even the issuance of new 340B guidelines, 340B Report Publisher

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DOJ Opposes Sanofi’s Move to Head Off 340B Dispute Resolution in Contract Pharmacy Battle

The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) has slammed a second drug manufacturer’s motion before a federal court to block implementation of the 340B program’s new administrative dispute resolution (ADR) process.

First, on Feb. 16 in a federal district court in

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340B Providers Cheer Bipartisan House Letter to HHS on Manufacturer Actions

Safety-net hospitals, health centers, and HIV/AIDS clinics yesterday applauded the 226 U.S. representatives—more than half of the House’s members—who signed Friday’s bipartisan letter to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Acting Secretary Norris Cochran seeking “immediate action to ensure that

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