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Hospitals Raise Concerns on Biden Drug Shortage Proposal

April 9, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

HHS recently released a proposal to address drug shortages with measures focused on both hospitals and drug manufacturers.

While the Biden administration’s proposal to address drug shortages does not exempt certain drug products from 340B pricing like the [...]

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340B Stakeholders Clash on Patient Definition, 340B Spending Requirements in Comments on Senate ‘Group of Six’ Draft Overhaul

April 4, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Advocacy groups for providers and drugmakers had diverging views in their comments on a draft Senate 340B overhaul.

Stakeholders disagreed on whether Congress should codify a new 340B patient definition or restrict how providers use 340B savings, in [...]

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As Deadline Approaches, First Stakeholders Respond to Senate Group of Six Draft 340B Overhaul

March 28, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

The deadline for stakeholders to respond to the bipartisan senate "group of six" 340B draft 340B overhaul is April 1.

Less than four days remain for stakeholders to comment on the highly anticipated bipartisan senate draft 340B program overhaul, and [...]

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Influential House GOP Group Calls for Major Medicaid Cuts and 340B Revenue to ‘Go Where Intended’

March 26, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

The Republican Study Committee's proposed fiscal year 2025 budget includes calls for changes to the 340B program.

An influential conservative congressional caucus is urging Congress to significantly cut Medicaid spending and “ to ensure that drug discounts [...]

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Long-Awaited Federal Bill to Protect Contract Pharmacy Arrangements Introduced

March 12, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) introduced federal legislation to prohibit drugmaker 340B contract pharmacy restrictions.

Long-awaited federal legislation to bar drugmaker restrictions on 340B contract pharmacy arrangements was introduced today. The Mar 12 bill sponsored [...]

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Biden Budget Request Keeps OPA Funding Flat

March 12, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

President Joe Biden's fiscal year 2025 budget would increase HRSA funding but not the budget of OPA, the office that oversees the 340B program.

Despite the looming finalization of a major policy change, this week’s fiscal year 2025 budget request would freeze the budget [...]

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Amid Double Digit 2023 Growth in 340B, NACHC Urges Federal Over State Reform

February 21, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Vacheria Keys, director of regulatory affairs at NACHC, said the organization was focused on comprehensive federal 340B reform.

Unreleased figures show “double digit growth again for the 340B program” in 2023, the leader of the 340B prime vendor [...]

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Republican Heavyweights Enter Race to Lead House Committee that Oversees 340B

February 15, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) will run to chair the House E&C Committee next session--and is considered by some lobbyists as the favorite to win--if Republicans maintain control of the House.

If House Republicans maintain control of the chamber after the November elections, several senior members will likely vie to chair [...]

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User Fees in Senate Group of Six Bill Raise Provider Concerns But Unlikely To Scuttle Bill

February 13, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

William von Oehsen, principal at the law firm Powers, said the SUSTAIN ACT is "not going to live or die based on the user fee."

The inclusion of a provision in draft 340B reform legislation creating “user fees” on 340B covered entities (CEs) is likely [...]

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340B Arises Briefly in Much-Anticipated Senate Hearing on High Prescription Drug Prices

February 8, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Joaquin Duato, CEO of J&J, said 340B "is an important program" in response to questioning from Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.).

One influential Republican senator criticized 340B and another Republican senator expressed support for the program during today’s much-awaited Senate committee [...]

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Hospitals Raise Concerns on Biden Drug Shortage Proposal

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340B Stakeholders Clash on Patient Definition, 340B Spending Requirements in Comments on Senate ‘Group of Six’ Draft Overhaul

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As Deadline Approaches, First Stakeholders Respond to Senate Group of Six Draft 340B Overhaul

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Influential House GOP Group Calls for Major Medicaid Cuts and 340B Revenue to ‘Go Where Intended’

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Long-Awaited Federal Bill to Protect Contract Pharmacy Arrangements Introduced

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Biden Budget Request Keeps OPA Funding Flat

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Amid Double Digit 2023 Growth in 340B, NACHC Urges Federal Over State Reform

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Republican Heavyweights Enter Race to Lead House Committee that Oversees 340B

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User Fees in Senate Group of Six Bill Raise Provider Concerns But Unlikely To Scuttle Bill

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