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BREAKING: HHS’s Top Lawyer Says Pharma’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Actions Are at Odds with the Law

“Certain manufacturers’ newfound and unilateral refusal to sell [340B] drugs through contract pharmacies is at odds with the structure and intended operation of the [340B] statute,” HHS General Counsel Robert Charrow said in an advisory opinion late today. | Source: C-SPAN

HHS’s Top Lawyer Says Pharma’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Actions Are at Odds with the Law

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s (HHS) top lawyer today rejected drug manufacturers’ legal arguments for either ending or imposing conditions on 340B pricing on covered outpatient drugs shipped to contract pharmacies.

In a Dec. 30 advisory opinion, HHS General Counsel Robert Charrow concluded, often in strong and colorful language, that the 340B statute requires manufacturers to offer their products for purchase by covered entities at or below the 340B ceiling price, “not qualified, restricted, or dependent on how the covered entity chooses to distribute the covered outpatient drugs.”

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s (HHS) top lawyer today rejected drug manufacturers’ legal arguments for either ending or imposing conditions on 340B pricing on covered outpatient drugs shipped to contract pharmacies.

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