Johnson & Johnson, Astellas Each Sue to Stop Medicare Drug Price Negotiations

Johnson & Johnson and Astellas
Johnson & Johnson and Astellas are the latest drugmakers to sue in federal court to stop Medicare drug price negotiation.
Drug manufacturers Johnson & Johnson and Astellas Pharma have each asked federal district courts to strike down parts of the [...]

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Senate Panel Could Mark Up PBM Bill Next Week With Spread Pricing Language That 340B Providers Oppose

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A group of Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee have called on CMS to withdraw its plan to rewrite the definition of Medicaid best price.
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee could mark up a pharmacy benefit manager reform bill next week with Medicaid managed care [...]

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Asks Court to Pause Medicare Drug Price Negotiations

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked a federal district court last week for a preliminary injunction against Medicare drug price negotiation.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked a federal district court in Ohio last week to stop Medicare from implementing the [...]

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Providers March to Capitol Hill for Second Straight Year to ‘Defend 340B’

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Around 50 340B provider advocates marched to the U.S. Capitol yesterday to urge Congress to defend the drug pricing program. Nonprofit group CV340B organized the demonstration.
On a sunny, humid, 92-degree afternoon in Washington, D.C., over 50 safety-net health care providers marched to the U.S. Capitol [...]

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Adverse Appellate Rulings in Contract Pharmacy Cases Could Be “Truly Catastrophic,” 340B Health’s Testoni Says

Maureen Testoni
It could be “truly catastrophic” if two federal appeals courts rule as a third already has that drug makers do not have to deliver 340B drugs to multiple contract pharmacies, 340B Health President and CEO Maureen Testoni said at the 340B Coalition summer conference.
It could be “truly catastrophic” if two federal appeals courts rule as a third did in January that drug manufacturers [...]

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340B Prime Vendor Apexus and AIDS Healthcare Foundation Are Trying to Settle Lawsuit Over Sub-Ceiling Price Discounts

AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Apexus
AHF has asked a federal appeals court to reverse an earlier court's decision to dismiss a case against Apexus over its provision of 340B sub-ceiling price discounts on drugs.
Apexus, the federally contracted 340B prime vendor, and AIDS Healthcare Foundation are meeting with a mediator to try to settle [...]

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NRHA Launches New 340B Policy and Advocacy Campaign

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The National Rural Health Association has intensified its 340B advocacy work with a new congressional campaign and set of policy principles.
The National Rural Health Association has intensified its 340B advocacy work with a new congressional campaign and set of policy [...]

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Maine Enacts Nation’s Second 340B Provider Transparency Law

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The Maine legislature has passed and Gov. Janet Mills (D) has signed a bill requiring 340B hospitals to report their 340B savings and how they use them.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed bipartisan legislation late last week requiring 340B hospitals to submit annual reports consistent with the American Hospital Association’s voluntary 340B good stewardship principles.

The new law made Maine the second state to impose reporting

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ASAP 340B, PhRMA and NACHC’s 340B Alliance, Challenges Hospitals to “Join the Conversation”

ASAP 340B
ASAP 340B, a coalition of a drug industry trade group and a community health center organization, added a civil rights group to its membership.

ASAP 340B, the nonprofit group that the brand drug industry and health centers formed to help advance the two sides’ joint plan to remake the 340B program, held its first webinar yesterday to describe its policy principles and call for

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Hospitals Spend More on Cancer Drugs for Insured Patients After Enrolling in 340B, JAMA Study Finds

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New research in JAMA says hospitals that joined 340B after its expansion in 2010 treated more commercially insured cancer patients with five commonly used biopharmaceuticals and and spent more on the drugs. Hospital groups criticized the study.

Hospitals that enrolled in the 340B program after its expansion in 2010 treated more commercially insured cancer patients with five commonly prescribed biologic oncology drugs and spent more on the drugs, a new JAMA study found.

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