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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Drug manufacturers yesterday defended the legality of their restrictions on 340B contract pharmacy, in the wake of cease and desist letters from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Groups and individuals representing 340B covered entities, meanwhile, praised HRSA
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U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Acting Administrator Diana Espinosa this morning informed six pharmaceutical manufacturers that their restrictions on 340B program pricing to covered entities that dispense medications through contract pharmacies have resulted in overcharges and are in
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