USA Today, America’s top newspaper ranked by circulation, says claims circulating on social media that the Biden administration raised insulin prices by freezing a 340B-related Trump administration rule are “missing context.”
Last Friday, the national newspaper’s Fact Check feature
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Humorist Bill Maher, host of HBO’s long-running Real Time with Bill Maher program, on Friday “honored” former U.S. House Energy and Commerce Chair Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) with a new award for unheralded public service—the Baldy. Waxman was a driving force
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Nearly all 340B-related program guidance documents have been taken down from an online database that the Trump administration launched last summer to underscore its position that federal government guidance documents are non-binding.
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA)
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The battle in the courts among providers, drug manufacturers, and health officials over 340B contract pharmacy likely will take time to play out, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky writes in his latest column for Omnicell (a 340B Report
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) asked the Biden administration this week to immediately withdraw the Trump administration’s “most favored nation” (MFN) drug pricing interim final rule, in part, because of the damage it will do to 340B hospitals and “critical
…The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is requiring Pharmaceutical Associates, Inc. (PAI), a South Carolina-based generic liquid drug manufacturer, to repay 340B covered entities for charges on its products above the 340B ceiling price discovered during a fiscal
…Illinois-based Eton Pharmaceuticals is making its Alkindi Sprinkle hydrocortisone product available through a sole specialty distributor “to ensure that patients…receive appropriate drug and clinical counseling and to support therapeutic adherence,” the company informed 340B covered entities in a Jan. 12
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The acting head of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) told state governors on Friday that the national COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) is expected to last through the end of the year. That likely means 340B program
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U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) announced yesterday he will not run for reelection in 2022. His retirement will deprive 340B covered entities of a reliable Senate Republican ally come 2023.
Although Portman is not on the Health, Education, Labor, and
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Health center advocates are trying to stamp out fast-spreading claims on social media that the Biden administration, in freezing a Trump administration rule, raised the price of insulin.
Facebook and Twitter have been filled with posts and counter-posts about the
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