PhRMA, NACHC, and and the National Hispanic Medical Association created a new group, ASAP 340B, and issued a 10-point plan to ensure that the 340B program “benefits patients and true safety-net providers, including rural hospitals.”
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the National Association of Community Health Centers, and the National Hispanic Medical Association this morning jointly issued a 10-point plan and created a nonprofit group to ensure that the 340B program “benefits
Bayer's limits on 340B drug sales involving shipments to contract pharmacies apply to hospitals only, the company said.
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals starting March 1 is imposing limits on hospitals’ replenishment orders of 340B-priced drugs shipped to contract pharmacies. It said it is voluntarily letting 340B grantee covered entities continue to use multiple contract pharmacies to dispense
A federal appeals court ruled today that the 340B statute does not compel drug manufacturers to deliver 340B-purchased drugs "wherever and to whomever a buyer demands."
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled 3-0 this morning that “Congress never said that drug makers must deliver discounted Section 340B drugs to an unlimited number of contract pharmacies.”
“By trying to enforce that supposed requirement, the
The Wall Street Journal's long article today about hospital participation in 340B comes three months after a similar lengthy critique by The New York Times.
A growing number of hospitals that do not qualify for 340B drug discounts as disproportionate share hospitals are enrolling instead under less demanding criteria for rural referral centers—including nationally prominent urban hospitals in metro Boston, Chicago, and Cleveland,
Two judges on a three-judge federal appeals court panel in Philadelphia today questioned whether the 340B statute forbids drug manufacturers from imposing distribution conditions on offers of 340B pricing.
Two judges on a three-judge federal appeals court panel this morning challenged a federal government lawyer’s stance that federal law forbids drug manufacturers from limiting how their drugs may be distributed when they offer to sell the drugs
CMS said late this afternoon it will put off until next year its decision on how it will comply with a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down five years of drug reimbursement cuts for 340B hospitals.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said late this afternoon that it will address how it will remedy five years of illegal Medicare Part B underpayments to hospitals for 340B purchased drugs “in future rulemaking,” rather
Federal appeals court Judge Frank Easterbrook is pictured during an appearance on C-SPAN in 2013. Easterbrook during a court hearing today questioned whether a closely watched 340B contract pharmacy case was ripe for appellate review.
A federal appeals court judge in Chicago expressed doubt during a hearing this morning that the court can review a lower court decision in drug manufacturer Eli Lilly’s 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit.
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments this morning in Novartis and United Therapeutics' consolidated 340B contract pharmacy cases.
Two of three judges on a federal appeals court panel strongly indicated this morning that they reject the federal government’s position that nothing in the 340B statute gives drug manufacturers the right to put any conditions on offers