Drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline is providing refunds for charges above 340B ceiling prices on nine NDCs for purchases during Q1 2020.
GSK posted a public notice about the repayments on the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration web site this
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The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) said yesterday it knows of three hospitals that have withdrawn from the 340B program because changes in patient mix linked to the COVID-19 pandemic caused them to lose their eligibility. There could
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Prospects for passage of Democratic drug pricing legislation as part of the Build Back Better (BBB) Act dimmed again last week with news that Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) had a stroke on Jan 27.
Lujan’s chief of staff
The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) told Republican members of Congress last week that “congressional action may be the only solution” to drug makers’ “aggressive actions to limit patients’ access to affordable medications at contract pharmacies.”
NACHC’s
Michelle Wiest, most recently vice president of pharmacy services at UC Health in Cincinnati, is Apexus’s new senior vice president of 340B policy and compliance.
Apexus announced Wiest’s hiring yesterday. The company said Wiest will oversee its education programming, compliance
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Critical access hospitals, rural referral centers, sole community hospitals, and free-standing cancer hospitals will not be getting access to voluntary 340B pricing on Bristol Myers Squibb’s (BMS) expensive myeloma drugs—a development certain to be a disappointment for rural providers.
Earlier
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340B covered entity allies in the U.S. House are booking an hour of floor speeches by members lauding the drug discount program next week Tuesday after all legislative business is finished.
Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) are
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Eleven of the 15 top-selling brand drugs in the United States are now subject to manufacturer-imposed 340B pricing restrictions, including eight in the past 90 days, a new analysis shows.
Real Chemistry, a health sector communications consulting firm, published
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Drug industry technology company Kalderos, which has struggled to launch its 340B Pay service to let drug companies provide 340B pricing as a post-purchase rebate instead of as an up-front discount, has a new chief executive officer.
The company announced
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340B program federal administrators told health care providers attending the 340B Coalition winter conference in San Diego today that they are behind them in the battle with drug manufacturers over accessing 340B pricing in the contract pharmacy setting.
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