Senate Hearings Next Week on Becerra’s Nomination to Head HHS

The Senate Finance and HELP committees will hold hearings next week on Xavier Becerra's nomination to serve as HHS Secretary.

Two U.S. Senate committees have scheduled hearings next week on President Biden’s nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be the next U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. In December, Becerra helped spearhead a bipartisan letter of

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Biden Reportedly Has Settled on His Choice to Run CMS

President Biden reportedly has chosen former federal executive and legislative branch health policy official Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to be his nominee to head CMS.

Several news organizations report that the Biden administration will nominate former federal executive and legislative branch health policy official Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to serve as Administrator of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The White House had not announced

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Generic Drug Manufacturer Posts 340B Refund Notice

Generic liquid drug manufacturer Pharmaceutical Associates, Inc. (PAI), has notified 340B covered entities on the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) website about 340B overcharges and potential credit/rebill repayments regarding all of its products covering the first through third

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Muted by Litigation, Pedley Avoids Hottest 340B Topics But Provides Some Nuggets

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is “ramping up” its work with the Biden administration “and bringing forth the key issues and concerns of” the 340B program, Rear Adm. Krista Pedley, the program’s director, said today in a

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AstraZeneca Tells Court HHS’s 340B Enforcement Poses “Imminent Irreparable Harm”

AstraZeneca told a federal judge that federal enforcement of 340B contract pharmacy requirements threatens it with "imminent, irreparable harm.” | Shutterstock

Drug manufacturer AstraZeneca on Friday asked the federal district judge in Delaware handling its 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit against the federal government either to issue a preliminary injunction in its favor or expedite court proceedings “to prevent imminent irreparable harm”

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Legislation Lifting Maximum Cap on Medicaid Rebates Advances

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday passed pandemic-relief legislation with language that could cause pharmaceutical manufacturers to owe states Medicaid drug rebates worth more than a drug’s average manufacturer price (AMP). It could also result in additional

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PolitiFact Calls Senate Candidate’s 340B Insulin Claim “Mostly False”

PolitiFact rated U.S. Senate candidate Mark Walker’s tweet that President Biden “is raising the prices of insulin and Epi-Pens on those with high costs and the uninsured” as being Mostly False.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism website that fact-checks politicians’ claims has waded into the controversy over whether President Biden raised insulin prices by freezing a 340B-related Trump administration regulation.

On Feb. 11, the Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact site rated U.S. Senate

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Bausch Health Confirms 340B Rapprochement with AmeriSourceBergen

Bausch Health last week confirmed on HRSA's website that AmeriSourceBergen has resumed distributing Bausch's 340B priced brand products. | Shutterstock

Drug manufacturer Bausch Health last week said on the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration website that its branded NDCs “will once again be available at the 340B ceiling price” through AmeriSourceBergen Corp. (ABC) “for eligible 340B purchases made by

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PhRMA Slams 340B Hospitals in Report, AHA Returns Fire

The AHA contests PhRMA's conclusion in its new report that 340B program growth drives up drug costs for patients and employers.

The ability to generate profits through the 340B program prompts hospitals to buy physician practices and shift delivery of care to more costly hospital outpatient settings, driving up drug costs for patients and employers, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

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Indiana House to Vote on Stopping PBMs From Squeezing 340B Entities

An Indiana House committee last week unanimously passed a bill to stop pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from discriminating against 340B covered entities.

State Rep. Edward Clere’s (R) bill, HR 1393, is now before the full House. There is no

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