Pharmaceutical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline said last week it would pay refunds for 340B overcharges occurring in the first quarter of 2021, including overcharges for blockbuster respiratory drugs Trelegy and Nucala.
The refund notice posted Feb. 2 on the U.S. Health
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Drugmakers Lilly, Novartis, and United Therapeutics this week urged federal appeals courts in Chicago and Washington, D.C., to follow the lead of the appeals court in Philadelphia and uphold their restrictions on 340B providers’ use of contract pharmacies.
Lilly on
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The Biden administration said on Monday that it plans to end the nationwide COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11. When the PHE ends, COVID-related 340B program flexibilities announced in March 2020 could end too.
The U.S. Health Resources and
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The American Hospital Association yesterday asked to meet with the team of federal officials that will decide how the government will repay 340B hospitals for five years’ worth of illegal Medicare Part B drug reimbursement cuts. The amount of refunds
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Covered entities may still use the 340B program under drug manufacturers’ conditions on the use of contract pharmacies, and while they “cannot squeeze as much revenue out of it as they once could, drug makers need not help them maximize
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In his inaugural column for Verity Solutions, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky offers insights “on what to expect in Washington, D.C., and the states in 2023 when it comes to the 340B program.”
Slafsky in the column makes
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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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U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) yesterday as expected announced that Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) will chair the Subcommittee on Health and Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Guthrie said
A new U.S. House bill would put a moratorium on 340B hospital growth and impose a host of reporting requirements on 340B hospitals. It would also make it much harder for private nonprofit hospitals to remain in the 340B program.
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