The Republican Party won control of the U.S. House last evening, securing the requisite 218th seat for majority status after the Associated Press declared Rep. Mike Garcia (R) the winner of a race in California.
Democrats on Nov. 12 won
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Two judges on a three-judge federal appeals court panel this morning challenged a federal government lawyer’s stance that federal law forbids drug manufacturers from limiting how their drugs may be distributed when they offer to sell the drugs at reduced
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A federal appeals court in Philadelphia this morning is hearing arguments in AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi’s lawsuits challenging federal agency findings that the drug companies’ 340B contract pharmacy policies are illegal and must stop or the firms could be
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Democrats will still control the U.S. Senate for the next two years, it became clear over the weekend, but control of the House has not yet been decided one week after the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
As of early this
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The 340B statute should be amended to extend discounts to emergency-use drugs to treat COVID-19 as a first step in rebuilding the COVID-19 safety net, an opinion piece published yesterday in the medical journal Health Affairs says.
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Partisan control of Congress for the final two years of President Biden’s term in office was still undecided this morning, two days after Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Major national news organizations say Republicans are favored to take control of the House,
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Congressional Medicare advisers are moving toward recommending what they say is a better way to give extra Medicare funding to safety-net hospitals that disproportionately serve low-income and/or uninsured beneficiaries.
If Congress and the executive branch adopt the proposal, however, it
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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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