The financial impact to 340B hospitals due to drug manufacturers’ restrictions on contract pharmacy more than doubled between December 2021 and March 2022, a new survey shows.
Hospital trade group 340B Health said the median annualized loss of contract pharmacy
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A federal district judge on Tuesday let Arkansas’ state health center association and a critical access hospital in the state have a role in the drug industry’s lawsuit challenging the state’s one-of-a-kind law protecting 340B contract pharmacy arrangements.
U.S. Senior
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Drug manufacturer AstraZeneca effective June 1 will stop offering voluntary 340B pricing on its orphan drugs to critical access hospitals, sole community hospitals, rural referral centers, and free-standing cancer hospitals, the company said yesterday.
“AstraZeneca is making this change to
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California health centers asked a federal district judge in late April to deny the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) motion to dismiss the health centers’ claims against CMS arising over the state’s transfer of Medicaid managed care
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A foundation linked to a trade group that represents non-hospital infusion centers is working to enlist state attorneys general and legislators to push for major 340B program changes at the federal level.
The National Infusion Center Association (NICA) is the
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Senate Finance Committee ranking Republican Chuck Grassley (Iowa) yesterday asked the U.S. Health and Human Services Department of Inspector General (OIG) if it plans to punish seven drug companies over their denials of 340B pricing when hospitals, health centers, and
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A federal appeals court in Philadelphia, as expected, has decided to consider and rule on AstraZeneca’s 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit in tandem with Sanofi and Novo Nordisk’s 340B contract pharmacy cases.
The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals announced the
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Conservative Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) has endorsed and appeared in a campaign advertisement for Republican Rep. David McKinley (W.Va.), a moderate being challenged for re-election by a candidate endorsed by ex-President Donald Trump.
The GOP primary between McKinley
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Drug manufacturer Merck today extended its restrictions on 340B pricing involving contract pharmacies to community health centers. The restrictions have applied only to hospital covered entities until now.
Other grantee covered entities remain exempt “at this time,” Merck said, adding
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