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”

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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.

The authors of

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340B Report Publisher and CEO: What Two State Legislative Sessions Tell Us About the State of 340B Policy

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What do the outcomes of 340B policy debates in a red state and a blue state mean for 340B stakeholders? 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky provides important analysis in his new column for Verity Solutions.

What do the outcomes of 340B policy debates in two state legislatures on opposite ends of the political spectrum mean for 340B stakeholders? 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky gives the most important takeaways in his latest column for

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Minnesota Imposes Nation’s First 340B Covered Entity Reporting Requirements

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Minnesota became the first state to impose 340B reporting requirements after Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed legislation in late May.

Minnesota health care providers were shocked to learn that a bill signed into law in late May made their state the first to require all 340B covered entities to report their total 340B drug acquisition costs and payments.

The first

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AHA Urges HRSA to Restore Policy Allowing Earlier Use of 340B Drugs in Hospital Outpatient Clinics

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The American Hospital Association published a study that found 340B hospitals' community benefit increased significantly in 2020.

The American Hospital Association has asked the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to resume letting hospitals dispense 340B drugs at offsite clinics that have not yet appeared on the hospital’s most recently filed Medicare cost report.

AHA asked HRSA

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