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
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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
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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
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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
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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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As we reported on deadline on Tuesday, a federal district court ruled this week that Arkansas’ novel 340B antidiscrimination law is not preempted by federal laws governing the 340B program, a decision that strikes down one of two legal arguments
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The 117th Congress appears destined to end without further action on the 340B program.
The House and Senate are on track to finish all work for the year by no later than Friday, Dec. 23. According to news reports yesterday,
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The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration has slightly adjusted the dates of the first of four periods in 2023 during which eligible entities may register themselves, their child sites, and their contract pharmacies to participate in the 340B program.
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A federal district judge ruled yesterday 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 Mitigation Strategies requirements.
U.S. Senior District Judge Billy Roy Wilson’s
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Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who was one of the original sponsors of the 340B law when it was created in 1992, says in a commentary in Health Affairs that criticism of the drug discount program often “reflect[s] a misunderstanding
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