President Joe Biden this afternoon is scheduled to sign legislation that for the first time will let Medicare negotiate the prices of certain costly prescription drugs and require drug makers to pay Medicare rebates when their prices outpace inflation.
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Federal lawyers asked a judge on Friday to let federal health officials decide how to give 340B hospitals relief for illegal Medicare Part B drug payment cuts since 2018.
In papers filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
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The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee wants federal healthcare officials to tell it what they have done about drug manufacturers’ denials of 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.
The committee included the directive to the U.S. Health Resources and
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A federal jury in Illinois last week ordered drug manufacturer Lilly to pay more than $61 million in damages for misstating its average manufacturer prices (AMP) and underpaying Medicaid drug rebates.
AMP is a key component used to determine 340B
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The U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) asked a federal district judge late last week not to make it rush its response to hospitals’ request for an immediate halt to a nearly 30% Medicare Part B payment cut in
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The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is letting eligible healthcare providers in flood-devastated Kentucky enroll in the 340B program immediately instead of making them wait until the next quarterly enrollment period in October.
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The U.S. Senate on Sunday rejected a Republican amendment to Democratic drug pricing and climate change legislation that would have required federally qualified health centers to make insulin and injectable epinephrine available to patients at or below 340B price.
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The U.S. Senate on Sunday passed historic legislation to let Medicare negotiate the prices of a small number of costly medicines and require drug manufacturers to pay Medicare rebates when prices paid by Medicare rise faster than inflation.
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About 100 safety-net provider advocates marched and chanted yesterday on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol to raise awareness in Congress and beyond about threats to the 340B drug pricing program.
The demonstration, organized by Community Voices for 340B (CV340B),
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Healthcare providers can suppress attacks on and build support for the 340B program by doing more to show the program helps vulnerable patients, the anesthesiologist who served as President Trump’s surgeon general said yesterday.
“We are fighting to deliver care
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