Andrea Palm, President Biden’s pick to be the number two official at the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS), pledged during her U.S. Senate confirmation hearing this morning to make sure that the 340B program “is working as it
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The bipartisan leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee and its Health Subcommittee wrote to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra this week asking him to enforce “full compliance” with the Trump administration’s hospital
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News this week that sexually transmitted disease (STD) reported cases in the U.S. reached all-time highs for the sixth straight year shows why STD clinic access to 340B drug discounts is vital, state and local STD program directors say.
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340B health care providers are hopeful that U.S. health secretary Xavier Becerra will sanction six drug manufacturers that have either stopped providing 340B discounts or placed restrictions on 340B pricing in the contract pharmacy setting, 340B Report Publisher and CEO
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The U.S. Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Thursday morning on President Biden’s nominations of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to run the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Andrea Palm to be U.S. Health and Human Services
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Congressional Medicaid policy advisers voted Friday to recommend raising the Medicaid rebate percentage and inflation penalty on drugs that are quickly and conditionally approved to treat serious conditions that fill an unmet need.
If Congress follows the Medicaid and CHIP
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340B covered entities were not included in Bristol-Myers Squibb’s $75 million settlement last week of a whistleblower’s claims that BMS “falsely reported improperly reduced average manufacturer prices” (AMPs) on multiple drugs from October 2007 through March 2016.
Ronald Streck, former
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Congressional Medicare policy advisers on Friday unanimously endorsed Medicare Part B drug reimbursement changes that hospitals say would amplify the effect of Part B drug payment cuts for 340B hospitals in place since 2018.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
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Prisons struggling with the high cost of treating inmates with viral illnesses such as hepatitis C and HIV can turn to the 340B program for relief, but participation is often tricky.
That was the takeaway of “Demystifying 340B for Correctional
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The U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) yesterday released the spring edition of its twice-annual public inventory of forthcoming regulatory actions. Although it was silent about the 340B program, 340B stakeholders shouldn’t breathe a sigh of relief yet.
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