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 340B drugs.
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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 government overstepped
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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, The Wall
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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 at reduced
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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 than in
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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.
Judge Frank Easterbrook, the senior judge on the
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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 of 340B
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The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration yesterday referred drug manufacturer Merck to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General for possible imposition of civil fines over Merck’s 340B contract pharmacy restrictions.
Public Health Services Lt.
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A national community health center association founded last year is launching a campaign to urge Congress to create a separate drug discount program called 340C open to health centers and perhaps rural hospitals and federal grantees.
According to a description
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) has informed a bipartisan group of House lawmakers that the enforcement agency does not plan to impose civil monetary penalties against the drug makers that have
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