A federal district judge in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday expressed doubt that she had jurisdiction to require the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) to make drug manufacturers repay 340B hospitals for drug discounts that the companies have declined
…Articles by : Tom Mirga, Editor at Large
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee is scheduled to mark up COVID-19 relief legislation today with language that could cause pharmaceutical manufacturers to owe states Medicaid drug rebates worth more than a drug’s average manufacturer price (AMP).
The language
…Three national hospital groups and three hospitals yesterday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court’s 2-1 July 2020 decision that the nearly 30 percent cut since 2018 in 340B hospitals’ drug reimbursement under the hospital outpatient
…The American Hospital Association (AHA) last week told the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that insurance company UnitedHealthcare’s (UHC) specialty pharmacy coverage policies “undermine the intent of the 340B program” and should be disallowed.
In a Feb.
…The Biden administration late yesterday told the U.S. Supreme Court that, due to the change in the presidency, the federal government has changed its main position in the lawsuit over the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) constitutionality. The government now says
…Drug manufacturer Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) yesterday notified 340B covered entities on the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) website that it is offering refunds for overcharges on about two dozen NDCs during the first quarter of 2019.
In
…As expected, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) on Tuesday was formally named the highest-ranking Republican member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, the Senate committee with jurisdiction over the 340B program.
“As Ranking Member of the
…A federal district judge in Oakland, Calif., is scheduled to hold a hearing this afternoon on the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Department’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit against it by 340B hospitals over HHS’s enforcement of its 340B
…U.S. Reps. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and David McKinley (R-W.Va.) have reintroduced bipartisan legislation in the U.S. House to give 340B rural and free-standing cancer hospitals access to 340B pricing on orphan drugs—which according to a 2019 study are 25
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