The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) late last week extended the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) to mid-January, giving some 340B-eligible entities more time for immediate enrollment in the program without having to wait for the next
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The National Association of Community Health Centers is asking to meet with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to discuss drug companies’ “unlawful restrictions” on 340B drug shipments to contract pharmacies.
NACHC told Becerra in an Oct. 14
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Federal health officials told drug manufacturers AbbVie and Amgen late yesterday their restrictions on 340B pricing when providers use contract pharmacies are illegal and must end or the companies could be fined.
The Health Resources and Services Administration’s last 340B
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A national community health center association founded last year is launching a campaign to urge Congress to create a separate drug discount program called 340C open to health centers and perhaps rural hospitals and federal grantees.
According to a description
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The congressman who represents Richmond, Va., told a health system Wednesday he rejects its reasons for ceasing intensive care, maternity, and other vital services at a Richmond hospital in a mainly Black neighborhood despite the hospital allegedly earning millions of
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President Biden will sign an executive order today directing the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) “to consider additional actions to further drive down prescription drug costs,” the White House said this morning.
“Under the Executive Order, HHS will
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The American Hospital Association is urging the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to abandon a Medicare Part B drug reimbursement policy option it is considering making to Congress, arguing that the proposed change would hurt 340B hospitals’ ability to provide care
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The 340B program “has always been uniquely federal in nature” and “there is no room for states, pharmacies, or other interests to step in and try to supplant” the federal government’s exclusive control over it, the brand drug industry said
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A federal district judge on Monday cleared the way for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in as quickly as two weeks to resume paying hospitals at the rate of average sales price (ASP) plus 6% for their
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Five Washington insiders steeped in knowledge about the 340B program will take part in a 340B Report webinar Oct. 28 about 340B’s future after the November midterm elections.
The event from 1:00 to 2:15 p.m. Eastern is an exclusive free
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