Drug manufacturers AstraZeneca and Sanofi have asked 340B administrative dispute resolution panels to pause covered entities’ ADR proceedings against them until all 340B-related federal court litigation is finished and until after the government finalizes its forthcoming new 340B ADR regulation.
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The federal government told a judge in late December its appeal of her joint ruling in Novartis and United Therapeutics’ (UT) 340B contract pharmacy lawsuits justifies her pausing drug industry vendor Kalderos’ 340B contract pharmacy suit.
Kalderos told the judge
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The Biden administration is rescinding an unimplemented Trump-era regulation that would have pegged Medicare Part B drug reimbursement for 50 expensive, physician-administered drugs on the lowest price that drug manufacturers provide in similar countries.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare &
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Biopharmaceutical company AbbVie—maker of the expensive and widely prescribed immunosuppressive medication Humira—today became the 11th drug manufacturer to announce conditions on 340B pricing when contract pharmacies dispense medicines to patients.
Starting Feb. 1, AbbVie will require hospitals to submit claims
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The federal government late yesterday filed notice that it is appealing a federal judge’s joint ruling in two cases last month that halted enforcement actions against two drug companies that deny 340B pricing when hospitals and other health care providers
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South Dakota U.S. Sen. John Thune, the second-ranking Senate Republican and a long-time 340B covered entity ally, might not run for re-election in 2022, two news organizations report. It would be a significant blow to 340B providers who have counted
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The 340B Coalition said yesterday it is “actively exploring the potential for a hybrid [winter 2022] conference that would allow attendance in-person or virtually for those that cannot attend in-person.”
The coalition, composed of 13 groups that represent 340B covered
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New York State and Virginia health centers asked a federal district judge on Monday to deny four insulin and diabetes drug manufacturers’ motion to pause fact-finding in the health centers’ antitrust suit stemming from the companies’ 340B contract pharmacy policies.
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A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has given drug manufacturers Novo Nordisk and Sanofi a Jan. 26 deadline to file briefs seeking reversal of parts of a district judge’s Nov. 5 joint decision in the two companies’ 340B contract pharmacy
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Drug manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) this month extended its restrictions on 340B drug sales to hospitals to Ofev, its expensive specialty drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
BI announced its new 340B pricing policy in late June. Effective Aug.
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