Brand drug manufacturers have asked a federal appeals court to overturn a judge’s ruling last month that Arkansas’s novel 340B anti-discrimination law is not preempted by the 340B statute nor by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Risk Evaluation and
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Swiss eye care drug manufacturer Alcon is providing refunds for charges above 340B ceiling prices on 22 NDCs for varying sales periods from Q3 2019 through Q3 2022.
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration posted Alcon’s public notice about
…The U.S. House was frozen stuck this morning after the new Republican majority splintered yesterday, the first day of the 118th Congress, over who should be the next House speaker.
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…President Biden on Dec. 29 signed a $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2023 that gave the 340B drug pricing program a slight funding boost.
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s Office of Pharmacy Affairs will get
…The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services starting Jan. 1, 2024, will require all 340B covered entities—hospital and grantee—to use claims modifiers to identify drugs as having been purchased through 340B when they bill for separately payable Medicare Part
…Drug manufacturer Viatris will give 340B covered entities credits on requests for purchases of dozens of NDCs at higher than 340B ceiling price during the first 11 days of August, the company says in a notice on the U.S. Health
…Private practice oncologists have paid for a study to model what would happened in 2023 if Medicare paid 340B hospitals for physician administered drugs based on a survey of those hospitals’ drug acquisition costs taken during the COVID pandemic’s darkest
…U.S. House and Senate appropriations committees want federal healthcare officials to brief them by April “on actions taken to safeguard covered entities’ lawful access to discounted drugs” under the 340B program.
The directive to the Health Resources and Services Administration
…Biopharmaceutical manufacturer Amgen yesterday became the 10th drug manufacturer to sue the federal government over the government’s position that the 340B statute requires drug companies to provide 340B-priced drugs to multiple contract pharmacies without conditions.
California-based Amgen filed suit
…Drug manufacturer Merck is providing refunds for charges above 340B ceiling prices on 23 NDCs purchased during Q4 2019, Q3 2021, and Q2 2022.
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration posted Merck’s Nov. 21 notice about the repayments on
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