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HRSA Picks Federal HIV/AIDS Policy Specialist Emeka Egwim To Be its Next 340B Program Director

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PHS Lt. Cmdr. Emeka Edwim is the new Director of HRSA's Office of Pharmacy Affairs, the HRSA unit that runs the 340B drug pricing program.

Emeka Egwim, a federal government HIV/AIDS policy specialist who also has served in the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, is the new head of the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program.

In a letter this morning to its staff, the U.S. Health

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Federal Judge Vacates HRSA’s Finding that AstraZeneca’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Policy Is Illegal

A federal district judge today struck down and vacated HRSA's May 2021 finding that AstraZeneca's 340B contract pharmacy policy violates the 340B statute.

A federal district judge in Wilmington, Del., today struck down and vacated the federal government’s finding that drug maker AstraZeneca’s conditions on 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies violates the 340B statute.

U.S. District Judge Leonard Stark of

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Hospital Group Leader Says “We’re Prepared to Go” in Direction of Federal 340B Contract Pharmacy Legislation

If the path to solving the 340B contract pharmacy dispute runs through Congress, "we're prepared to go in that direction,” 340B Health President and CEO Maureen Testoni said today.

For the first time since the 340B contract pharmacy impasse started over a year and a half ago, the leader of an influential hospital group said publicly today her association is prepared to move in the direction of a federal

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BMS Clamps Down on 340B Contract Pharmacy for Most of its Drugs but Expands 340B Access to its Controversial Myeloma Meds Program

BMS yesterday imposed restrictions on 340B pricing on most of its covered outpatient drugs, while liberalizing its policy on access to 340B pricing on its expensive cancer drugs Revlimid, Pomalyst, and Thalomid.

Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) yesterday became the 12th drug manufacturer to impose restrictions on 340B pricing when hospitals and grantee covered entities contract with pharmacies to dispense drugs to patients.

According to late-day email messages from BMS to 340B

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Breaking News: AbbVie Becomes 11th Drug Maker to Restrict 340B Contract Pharmacy. Feds Appeal Rulings in Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi Cases.

AbbVie is the 11th pharmaceutical maker to impose limits on 340B contract pharmacy.

Biopharmaceutical company AbbVie—maker of the expensive and widely prescribed immunosuppressive medication Humira—today became the 11th drug manufacturer to announce conditions on 340B pricing when contract pharmacies dispense medicines to patients.

Starting Feb. 1, AbbVie will require hospitals to submit claims

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Breaking News: Feds Appeal Rulings in Novartis and United Therapeutics 340B Contract Pharmacy Cases

The federal government yesterday asked the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to review a lower court's Nov. 5 joint ruling in Novartis and United Therapeutics' 340B contract pharmacy lawsuits.

The federal government late yesterday filed notice that it is appealing a federal judge’s joint ruling in two cases last month that halted enforcement actions against two drug companies that deny 340B pricing when hospitals and other health care providers

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Breaking News: Amgen Announces 340B Contract Pharmacy Limits for Hospitals

Amgen this morning became the 10th pharmaceutical manufacturer to announce conditions on 340B pricing when contract pharmacies dispense medicines to patients.

UPDATED Wednesday Dec. 1, 2021, 1:15 p.m. EST—Includes comments from Amgen, HRSA, and hospital group 340B Health.

Biopharmaceutical manufacturer Amgen this morning became the 10th pharmaceutical company to announce conditions on 340B pricing when contract pharmacies dispense medicines to

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Breaking: Another Federal Judge Issues a Mixed Opinion in 340B Contract Pharmacy Litigation, this Time in Novartis and United Therapeutics’ Cases

U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich last night issued the second court ruling of the day involving drug manufacturers’ denials of and limitations on 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.

A federal district judge last night issued the second court ruling of the day involving drug manufacturers’ denials of and limitations on 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies. Like the day’s earlier ruling, this one too was mixed,

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Breaking: Federal Judge Hands Down Mixed Opinion in Sanofi and Novo Nordisk’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Lawsuits

U.S. Chief District Judge Freda Wolfson ruled today that Sanofi and Novo Nordisk's 340B contract pharmacy policies violate the 340B statute. But she declined to decide whether the 340B statute permits covered entities to use multiple or unlimited contract pharmacies.

A federal district judge this afternoon upheld the federal government’s finding that drug manufacturers Sanofi and Novo Nordisk cannot unilaterally impose restrictions on offers of 340B pricing to covered entities and that their policies must cease.

U.S. Chief District Judge

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Breaking: Federal Judge Vacates HRSA’s May 17 Letter to Lilly on 340B Contract Pharmacies, Sends Matter Back to Agency

A federal district judge late this afternoon struck down, as arbitrary and capricious, HRSA's finding that Lilly's 340B contract pharmacy policies violate the 340B statute. However, the judge said that manufacturers should not be allowed to unilaterally impose conditions on the location and delivery of 340B drugs and sent the matter back to HRSA.

A federal district judge in Indianapolis late this afternoon set aside and vacated the federal government’s May 17 finding that drug manufacturer Eli Lilly’s denials of 340B ceiling prices when covered entities use contract pharmacies violate the 340B statute.

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