Biden Nominates Veteran Capitol Hill Aide to be HHS Assistant Secretary

Melanie Egorin, a veteran Democratic congressional health care adviser, has been tapped to be the next HHS Assistant Secretary for Legislation.

President Biden has nominated Melanie Egorin, a veteran Democratic congressional health care adviser, to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Legislation.

If confirmed, Egorin would be a top deputy to Xavier Becerra, whose nomination to

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Biden Wants to Delay 340B Health Center Insulin Rule Again, to July 20

Stakeholders have from today through March 14 to comment on the Biden administration's proposal to delay a controversial Trump administration about the cost of insulin at 340B health centers until July 20. | Shutterstock

The Biden administration proposes once again to push back, this time from March 22 to July 20, the effective date of the Trump administration’s controversial final rule to require health centers to provide insulin and injectable epinephrine to low-income patients

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Sanofi Calls 340B ADR System “a Faux Judicial Process”

Drug manufacturer Sanofi, in its latest filing in federal district court in New Jersey, called the new 340B administrative resolution system a false judicial process designed to punish drug companies.

Drug manufacturer Sanofi on Monday struck back at the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) for opposing its Feb. 2 motion in a federal lawsuit requesting an injunction against the 340B program’s new administrative dispute resolution (ADR) process.

“The government is eager

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COVID Relief Bill With Implications for 340B Set to Become Law Tomorrow

The U.S. House voted 220-211 yesterday on final approval of a major COVID-19 relief bill. | C-SPAN

The U.S. House on Wednesday passed and sent to President Biden a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief and economic recovery bill with provisions affecting the 340B program and its participants. Biden will sign the bill at the White House tomorrow.

The

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Biden Names Health Care Advisers with Strong Ties to Hill Democrats

The White House plans to release a revised administrative dispute resolution process for the 340B program this month.

Two health care policy experts with ties to congressional Democratic chairs influential on 340B matters have gone to work for the Biden White House.

Elizabeth Jurinka, most recently chief health adviser to Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), on

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COVID-19 Relief Bill Includes Many Provisions Affecting 340B Providers

A screen capture of the Congressional Record for March 5 documenting the Senate's passage of nearly $2 trillion in pandemic relief.

The U.S. Senate voted 50 to 49 along party lines early Saturday morning to approve an amended version of the House’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. According to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s (D-Md.) office, the House could vote on

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Hospitals Want Role in Three More Pharma Lawsuits Over 340B Contract Pharmacy

Hospital groups want to intervene in opposition to three more drug manufacturers' lawsuits against the federal government over 340B contract pharmacy requirements.

Hospital groups that recently filed a motion to intervene in opposition to drug manufacturer Eli Lilly’s lawsuit against the federal government over 340B contract pharmacy requirements also are trying to intervene in similar suits against the government by manufacturers AstraZeneca,

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Senator Cassidy Again Cites 340B in Opposing Becerra for HHS Secretary

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) yesterday criticized HHS Secretary-designate Xavier Becerra's lack of familiarity with 340B before voting in the Finance Committee against reporting Becerra's nomination favorably to the full Senate.

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee yesterday split 14-14 along party lines on whether to favorably report California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s nomination to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary to the full Senate.

There is a 50-50

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Orphan Drug Study’s Authors Say Findings May Warrant Lifting 340B Exemption

Humira, one of the 15 partial orphan drugs examined in the new study in Health Affairs, had $13.7 billion in sales in 2018.

More than 70 percent of U.S. spending on top-selling “partial orphan drugs”—drugs for rare diseases that also are approved to treat common diseases—is for non-orphan indications, a study in latest edition of Health Affairs concludes.

Makers of partial orphan drugs

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Senate Democrats Soften, But Don’t Yank, COVID Relief Bill’s Medicaid Rebate Language

In a concession to drug companies, Senate Democrats reportedly have agreed to delay by one year—from Jan. 1, 2023 to Jan. 1, 2024—the effective date of language in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that might lead to 340B ceiling

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