Mary Wakefield, who led the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) from 2009 to 2015, is back at HHS.
HHS announced Tuesday that Wakefield accepted an appointment to serve as counselor to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. She served
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Category: Federal
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) has asked a federal judge to invalidate a federal regulation that would require drug makers, starting in January 2023, to include the full value of patient financial assistance in their Medicaid best price
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The U.S. Senate is expected today to confirm Chiquita Brooks-LaSure’s nomination to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), clearing the way for the swearing in of another key Biden administration official with influence touching on
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Drug manufacturers Eli Lilly and Sanofi late yesterday asked federal judges for temporary protection from federal health agency orders to immediately resume offering 340B pricing on drugs shipped to contract pharmacies. Drug maker Novo Nordisk is expected to seek similar
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A federal district judge in Wilmington, Del., this morning gave the federal government until 11:00 a.m. Eastern tomorrow to respond to AstraZeneca’s emergency motion yesterday for a stay in its lawsuit over the government’s efforts to compel it to resume
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Six drug companies have shown no sign so far of acquiescing to the federal government’s order on Monday to immediately resume 340B pricing on their products dispensed by contract pharmacies.
340B covered entities yesterday reported seeing no evidence that Eli
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The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) last night proposed that a federal district judge should maintain the stay in NACHC’s suit against the government stemming from drug manufacturers’ denials of 340B pricing
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A U.S. House committee alleged Tuesday that AbbVie gamed the federal orphan drug program to boost profits for its anti-inflammatory drug Humira—by far, the top-selling medicine in the United States.
Four types of hospitals that participate in the 340B program
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Today is the anniversary of Eli Lilly lighting the fuse on the 340B program’s most explosive year ever.
On May 18, 2020, Lilly sent the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) a letter saying that, unless it heard otherwise
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