Arkansas’s unique 340B contract pharmacy law is about drug delivery, not drug pricing, and thus does not conflict with the federal 340B statute, Arkansas state officials and 340B providers said recently in the latest volley in the drug industry’s federal
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National hospital groups, as expected, late last week asked a judge again to order the federal government to promptly repay 340B hospitals for illegally reduced Medicare Part B drug payments from 2018 through late September. They asked the first time
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Drug manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma have announced refunds for overcharging 340B covered entities, GSK for the fourth time and Purdue for the second time this year.
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently posted the companies’ notices
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The federal government has had “more than adequate time to correct” its unlawful Medicare Part B payment cuts for hospitals’ 340B purchased drugs from 2018 through 2022 and should promptly reimburse the hospitals it harmed, the American Hospital Association said
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There could be a loophole in Tuesday’s Medicare hospital outpatient payment final rule for 2023 that lets the government keep paying hospitals for 340B-acquired drugs at average sales price minus 22.5% at some hospital offsite locations, healthcare lawyers said yesterday.
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Friday is the 340B program’s 30th anniversary. To mark this milestone, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky devotes his latest column for Omnicell to a remembrance of 20 key moments “that have had the greatest impact on this very
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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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The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, for now at least, is setting aside a proposed change to 340B program forms that a provider group warned might lead to covered entities losing access to 340B pricing under some drug manufacturers’
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A South Carolina health center and the federal government are sparring over whether the center should have access to more information from the government than it already possesses in its fight to clarify the 340B patient definition.
Oct. 26 court
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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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