The U.S. Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) has ordered two drug manufacturers that it audited—Akorn Inc. and BioComp Pharma—to repay 340B covered entities for overcharges.
HRSA updated its fiscal year 2021 audit results on its website last week.
The federal government and the two groups that sued it separately to force it to issue long delayed 340B administrative dispute resolution (ADR) regulations agreed last night to keep stays in place in both lawsuits until Jan. 3, 2022. Meanwhile,
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A central Virginia community health center has joined an upstate New York health center’s antitrust lawsuit against four insulin and diabetes drug manufacturers over the companies’ denials of 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.
Central Virginia Health Services’
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Drug manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) sued the federal government this afternoon in federal district court in Washington, D.C., in defense of its policy of denying hospitals 340B drug discounts when hospitals use contract pharmacies.
BI is the seventh manufacturer to
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U.S. Senate appropriators say they’re happy with the federal government’s response to six drug manufacturers’ denials of 340B drug discounts involving contract pharmacy.
The Democratic-controlled Senate Appropriations Committee praised the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for its actions
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The Biden administration yesterday formally announced that it wants to repeal a regulation issued during ex-President Trump’s last days in office that has helped to cast doubt on the authority of federal health care guidance, including for the 340B program.
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A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that Walgreens’ internal transfer of pharmacy customers’ personal identifying information (PII) for 340B drug discount drug purposes violates South Carolina and federal privacy laws.
The U.S.
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Bristol Myers Squibb’s Celgene subsidiary has removed purchasing limits due to demand-related supply constraints on its injectable acute myeloid leukemia (AML) drug Vidaza that have been in place since May 2020.
BMS announced the switch back to normal sales in
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A federal government lawyer told a judge during a hearing yesterday that the government’s case against AstraZeneca and other drug companies that deny 340B drug discounts when covered entities use contract pharmacies is “in a very different posture” than it
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Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America told a federal district judge last week that the federal government has failed to refute PhRMA’s contention that the regulation establishing the 340B administrative dispute resolution (ADR) process “is unconstitutional, procedurally defective, and relies
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