About 8.3% of people in the United States, or 27.2 million, had no health insurance at any point during 2021, down from an estimated 8.6%, or 28.3 million, in 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
The National Center for
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A federal district judge has dismissed two community health centers’ federal and state antitrust claims against four insulin and diabetes drug manufacturers over the companies’ denials of 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.
Chief Judge Elizabeth Wolford of
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Today is the deadline for public comments on Medicare’s proposed rule for how it will pay for hospital outpatient services and clinician-administered drugs in 2023.
340B stakeholders will be paying close attention to comments on how Medicare Part B should
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Eighty percent of all hospitals in Medicare’s outpatient prospective payment system—including 52% of all 340B hospitals—would see their net OPPS payments decline next year if Medicare ends a nearly 30% cut in 340B hospitals’ drug payments that began in 2018,
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U.S. Public Health Service Rear Adm. Krista Pedley, a top official at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and former longtime head of the 340B drug pricing program, has been selected by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
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A federal district judge on Wednesday continued the stay in community health centers’ lawsuit against federal health officials over the administrative dispute resolution process for the 340B program after accepting the explanation for a missed deadline to file a report
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The Biden administration is requesting $27 billion to combat monkeypox and COVID-19 as part of a stopgap spending bill to fund the government past the end of fiscal year 2022, which ends Sept. 30. Senate Republicans are signaling skepticism and
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A federal district judge in Washington, D.C., yesterday ordered community health centers to answer why she should not dismiss their lawsuit against federal health officials over the administrative dispute resolution process for the 340B program.
Judge Florence Pan of U.S.
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Congressional Medicare advisers are weighing whether to recommend converting the 6% add-on to Part B drug reimbursement to a fixed fee capped at $175 for drugs that cost $15,000 or more, phased in starting with drugs costing above $700.
Medicare
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Two federal health officials with long track records managing key aspects of the 340B program are playing pivotal roles in a major overhaul of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky last month named Mary
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