Groups that represent 340B hospitals praised the Biden administration’s decision Friday to end a deep cut in the hospitals’ Medicare Part B drug reimbursement in place since 2018. They urged the government to swiftly make 340B hospitals whole for their
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The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA), the unit within the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) that runs the 340B drug discount program, refreshed the OPA site late last week. This is the
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One hundred eighty-one U.S. House members—144 Democrats and 37 Republicans—urged the Biden administration on Friday to quickly impose civil monetary penalties against all drug manufacturers that restrict access to 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.
“Manufacturers have received
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The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “fully anticipate[s]” applying a Medicare Part B reimbursement rate next year of average sales price ASP plus 6% to drugs and biologicals purchased through the 340B program, CMS announced late this afternoon.
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A U.S. House Republican task force assigned to develop proposals the party can advance if the GOP takes the majority in the November elections apparently chose not to make recommendations for the 340B program.
The Healthy Future Task Force’s affordability
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A federal district judge was right to rule last November that drug makers Novo Nordisk and Sanofi may not tie strings to 340B pricing when providers use contract pharmacies, the federal government told a federal appeals court in Philadelphia last
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance to retail pharmacies yesterday about their “unique role … in ensuring access to comprehensive reproductive health care services”—including filling prescriptions for drugs that can end or prevent pregnancy.
Mifepristone and
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Drug manufacturer Merck sued the federal government on Friday over the government’s May 6 letter telling the company its conditions on 340B pricing when hospitals and health centers use contract pharmacies are illegal. The government warned Merck it could be
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Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and drug maker Johnson & Johnson each filed a friend of the court brief in June backing Novartis and United Therapeutics in those two companies’ appeals of a federal district judge’s November decision that
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U.S. Senate Democrats’ revamped drug pricing legislation would lower the federal deficit by $287 billion over 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said late last week.
Last November, CBO estimated that drug pricing language in the House-passed Build Back
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