Top U.S. House Republicans sent U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra a letter on Monday asking 18 detailed questions about implementation and oversight of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) Medicare drug price negotiation provisions. Their interrogation foreshadows intensified
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Generic drug manufacturer Unichem Pharmaceuticals USA must repay 340B covered entities for overcharges found during a 340B program compliance audit, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) said yesterday.
HRSA has been auditing five drug manufacturers per year for
…Congress and the White House should let financially distressed critical access hospitals keep their 340B drug discounts if they opt under a new law to downgrade into emergency hospitals to remain solvent, rural health advocates told federal health officials in
…The landmark prescription drug pricing legislation that President Joe Biden signed this month is a mixed bag for 340B stakeholders, 340B Health Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky says in his latest column for Omnicell.
Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act on
…Last September, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) published a drug manufacturers’ notice to 340B covered entities that it was limiting distribution of a medicine that alleviates a side effect of HIV/AIDS treatment.
It was the fifth limited
…A federal district judge on Tuesday gave federal health officials a Sept. 22 deadline to respond to a higher court’s ruling last month that a South Carolina health center has the right to challenge the legality of the government’s 340B
…U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) has reintroduced a comprehensive health care bill he sponsored during the last session of Congress that would create new reporting requirements for 340B disproportionate share (DSH), children’s, and free-standing cancer hospitals and their child sites.
…Correction, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, 3:00 p.m. EDT—The original version of this article mistakenly said the hospital plaintiffs’ complaint stated that HHS improperly based 2020 and 2021 Medicare Part B drug payment cuts for 340B hospitals on a survey of
…Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), U.S. congresswoman for the 21st district in upstate New York and third highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, visited independently-owned Condo Pharmacy in Plattsburgh, N.Y., last week in a show of support for the 340B contract pharmacy
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