PolitiFact Calls Senate Candidate’s 340B Insulin Claim “Mostly False”

PolitiFact rated U.S. Senate candidate Mark Walker’s tweet that President Biden “is raising the prices of insulin and Epi-Pens on those with high costs and the uninsured” as being Mostly False.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism website that fact-checks politicians’ claims has waded into the controversy over whether President Biden raised insulin prices by freezing a 340B-related Trump administration regulation.

On Feb. 11, the Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact site rated U.S. Senate

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Bausch Health Confirms 340B Rapprochement with AmeriSourceBergen

Bausch Health last week confirmed on HRSA's website that AmeriSourceBergen has resumed distributing Bausch's 340B priced brand products. | Shutterstock

Drug manufacturer Bausch Health last week said on the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration website that its branded NDCs “will once again be available at the 340B ceiling price” through AmeriSourceBergen Corp. (ABC) “for eligible 340B purchases made by

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PhRMA Slams 340B Hospitals in Report, AHA Returns Fire

The AHA contests PhRMA's conclusion in its new report that 340B program growth drives up drug costs for patients and employers.

The ability to generate profits through the 340B program prompts hospitals to buy physician practices and shift delivery of care to more costly hospital outpatient settings, driving up drug costs for patients and employers, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

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Indiana House to Vote on Stopping PBMs From Squeezing 340B Entities

An Indiana House committee last week unanimously passed a bill to stop pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from discriminating against 340B covered entities.

State Rep. Edward Clere’s (R) bill, HR 1393, is now before the full House. There is no

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In Key Hearing, Federal Judge Expresses Doubt About Court’s Ability To Take Action on Contract Pharmacy Matter

Tuesday's hearing in a lawsuit involving drug manufacturers denials of 340B pricing on contract pharmacy drugs was held in the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland, Calif.

A federal district judge in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday expressed doubt that she had jurisdiction to require the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) to make drug manufacturers repay 340B hospitals for drug discounts that the companies have declined

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House Set To Act on Bill that Could Result in Higher Medicaid Rebates and 340B Discounts

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee is scheduled to mark up COVID-19 relief legislation today with language that could cause pharmaceutical manufacturers to owe states Medicaid drug rebates worth more than a drug’s average manufacturer price (AMP).

The language

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Hospitals Ask U.S. Supreme Court to End “Crushing” Medicare Payments Cuts for 340B Drugs

Three national hospital groups and three hospitals yesterday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court’s 2-1 July 2020 decision that the nearly 30 percent cut since 2018 in 340B hospitals’ drug reimbursement under the hospital outpatient

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AHA Asks CMS to Rein In UHC’s Specialty Pharmacy Policies

The American Hospital Association says UnitedHealthcare's Specialty pharmacy coverage policies undermine the 340B program's intent. | Shutterstock

The American Hospital Association (AHA) last week told the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that insurance company UnitedHealthcare’s (UHC) specialty pharmacy coverage policies “undermine the intent of the 340B program” and should be disallowed.

In a Feb.

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Biden Administration Position in Supreme Court ACA Case Has 340B Implications

340B hospitals’ Medicare Part B payment challenge is not the only Supreme Court case next term that will impact the 340B program.

The Biden administration late yesterday told the U.S. Supreme Court that, due to the change in the presidency, the federal government has changed its main position in the lawsuit over the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) constitutionality. The government now says

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Drug Manufacturers GSK and Esperion Offering Refunds for 340B Overcharges

Glaxo Smith Kline has notified 340B covered entities about the availability of refunds for overcharges early in 2019. | Shutterstock

Drug manufacturer Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) yesterday notified 340B covered entities on the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) website that it is offering refunds for overcharges on about two dozen NDCs during the first quarter of 2019.

In

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