Medicare likely would pay 340B hospitals 106% of the average sales price (ASP) for Aduhelm—Biogen’s high-cost biologic drug for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease—for the first two or three years it is on the market, not the ASP minus 22.5% 340B hospital
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The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) asked a federal district judge in Sacramento last week to dismiss California health centers’ claims for relief over CMS’s approval of the state’s transfer of Medicaid managed care drug benefits to
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A federal district judge on Friday entered his final orders and judgement in AstraZeneca’s 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit, clearing the way for the government to file its anticipated appeal.
Judge Leonard Stark of the District of Delaware closed the first
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President Biden is scheduled this afternoon to sign a $1.5 trillion federal appropriations bill with language to help some hospitals forced out of the 340B program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bill also gives the U.S. Health Resources and Services
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The U.S. Senate last night passed a $1.5 trillion federal appropriations bill with language to help some hospitals forced out of the 340B program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The House passed the bill Wednesday night. President Biden is expected
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The U.S. House last night passed a $1.5 trillion omnibus appropriations bill with language to help hospitals whose admission patterns have been so disrupted by COVID-19 that their Medicare disproportionate share (DSH) adjustment percentages have fallen below the levels needed
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Pharmaceutical manufacturers Novo Nordisk and Sanofi on Tuesday laid out their cases for the next phase of the legal battle over their conditions on 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies. The cases are before the U.S. Court of
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Legislation addressing hospitals’ loss of eligibility for 340B drug discounts due to COVID-19-related changes in payer mix could reach President Biden before Friday at midnight. The language would not be as beneficial to such hospitals as standalone bipartisan bills in
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Non-hospital 340B covered entities have formed a group called 340B Grantees to fight on their own behalf on legislation, in courts, and perhaps in politics at the federal and state levels.
340B Grantees hasn’t formally announced itself yet and is
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It is time for Congress to make it crystal clear that contract pharmacies are integral to the 340B program, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky writes in his latest column for Omnicell’s blog.
Federal courts have struck down federal
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