Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts late yesterday began notifying 340B covered entities by email that, effective March 1, it “will require a new identification method for submitting and identifying 340B eligible claims.”
A health system 340B program manager said this
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The hospital groups that last week lost a federal lawsuit in California to make federal health officials enforce 340B contract pharmacy requirements for drug manufacturers have asked a federal court in Indiana to make them parties in opposition to manufacturer
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The U.S. Senate Finance Committee’s new Democratic chair is considering bringing back a bipartisan bill from the last session of Congress that would require drug manufacturers to pay the federal government rebates on Medicare Part B and Part D drugs
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Thirty-six state and regional hospital associations on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court’s 2-1 July 2020 decision that upheld the nearly 30 percent cut since 2018 in 340B hospitals’ drug reimbursement under the hospital
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President Biden’s pick to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary expressed his support for the recent HHS advisory opinion on contract pharmacy during questions today before a key congressional committee.
California Attorney General Xavier
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The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee this morning is holding the first of two Senate committee hearings this week on President Biden’s nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to serve as U.S. Health and Human
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President Biden is bringing a number of 340B policy experts on board to his team. Yesterday, he formally nominated Andrea Palm, most recently Wisconsin’s health secretary-designate, to be U.S. Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Palm would be
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Greg Walden (Ore.), the former Republican chair of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee, yesterday launched his own public policy and political strategy firm in partnership with one of Washington’s top lobbying firms.
Walden and the Alpine Group
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The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), in light of the declared public health emergency in Texas, is letting eligible health care providers there enroll immediately in the 340B drug pricing program instead of waiting for the next normal
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The Biden administration should reverse “harmful Trump administration policies” that “undermined the 340B program and contravened Congress’ intent,” the group America’s Essential Hospitals advised President Biden in a letter earlier this month.
America’s Essential Hospitals’ Feb. 10 letter said
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