A federal district court’s ruling last October that federal law requires drug manufacturers to deliver 340B purchased drugs to contract pharmacies conflicts with two other courts’ conclusions, “upsets the delicate statutory balance Congress struck, and raises serious constitutional problems,” drug
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Pharmacy benefit managers’ discriminatory business practices against 340B hospitals boost PBMs’ financial bottom lines while hurting the hospitals’ mission to serve vulnerable patients, groups that represent or work with 340B hospitals and their pharmacists recently told the Federal Trade Commission
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Safety net healthcare providers increasingly have turned to the states to address challenges to the 340B program, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky says in his latest column for medication management solutions company Omnicell.
“In just four years, an
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Overreliance on 340B drug discount revenues to fund HIV-prevention services incentivizes clinics to prescribe high-cost medicines instead of cheaper effective options, “with dire consequences for [preexposure prophylaxis] PrEP access, impact, and equity,” says an opinion article published last weekend in
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Drug manufacturers Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) and Merck are giving 340B covered entities refunds for overcharges on select products, according to public notices by the companies posted on the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) website.
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Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) is seeking a new director for its policy and research team to help develop and lead implementation of work on 340B and related hospital cost and affordability issues, according to an employment solicitation
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A proposed replacement for the 340B administrative dispute resolution (ADR) process has been under White House review for more than half a year. It seems to be no closer to publication for notice and comment than it was when it
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The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last week again asked a federal district court in Sacramento to dismiss a group of California health centers’ claims for relief over CMS’s approval of the state’s transfer of Medicaid managed
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A Tennessee health system last week denied U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) allegations that agreements under the system’s seven-year affiliation with a private oncology practice were “a fiction” perpetuated partially to let the system “realize profits from the 340B program.”
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Groups representing health centers, HIV/AIDS clinics, and hospitals asked federal appeals courts in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., this week to hold that drug manufacturers must give covered entities 340B discounts on drugs when entities use contract pharmacies to fill prescriptions
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