Alex Azar, at 8:45 a.m. Eastern yesterday in one of his last acts as U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, appointed the six voting and two ex-officio non-voting members of the 340B program’s new administrative dispute resolution (ADR) board.
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U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) Rear Adm. Krista Pedley, who has led the federal 340B drug pricing program for more than a decade, has been promoted within the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in conjunction with a major
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President Biden has accepted the resignation of U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator Tom Engels, whom former President Trump appointed to the post in November 2019. Diana Espinosa, a career civil servant who has served as HRSA’s deputy
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Community health center leaders are concerned that the Biden administration yesterday asked, but did not order, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) to postpone tomorrow’s scheduled implementation of a controversial Trump administration final rule that will require health
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U.S. House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) last Friday formally announced Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) as Health subcommittee chair and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) as leader of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee.
Eshoo, who is based
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Drug manufacturer Gilead has altered a planned change to its patient assistance program (PAP) for uninsured people living with HIV that would have been unworkable for some vulnerable patients, HIV/AIDS caregivers and activists say. The change also would have deprived
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Outgoing U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar last week asked a federal district judge to dismiss a lawsuit against him and his department by 340B hospitals over HHS’s enforcement of its 340B contract pharmacy requirements for drug
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U.S. insulin manufacturer and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) business practices “have created a vicious cycle of price increases that have sent costs for patients and taxpayers through the roof,” U.S. Senate Finance Committee leaders Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden
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Outgoing U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma both referred to 340B—obliquely in Azar’s case, directly in Verma’s—in recent farewell remarks.
In an interview with Modern Healthcare
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National health care organizations and businesses with major stakes in the 340B program have suspended political contributions following a pro-Trump mob’s Jan. 6 violent attack on Congress to stop it from counting and certifying the Electoral College’s votes for president.
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