Provider of HIV/AIDS Care Refiles Suit Against 340B Prime Vendor

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) last week refiled its lawsuit against federally contracted 340B prime vendor Apexus

California-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) last week refiled its lawsuit against Delaware-based federally contracted 340B prime vendor Apexus, setting forth facts that AHF argued gives a federal district court in California jurisdiction over the case.

AHF, based in Los Angeles,

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RWC-340B Assessing Dispute Resolution Proposed Rule’s Impact on Its Lawsuit and Current Dispute Resolution Petition

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RWC-340B is assessing how HRSA's proposed new 340B dispute resolution process would affect the group's ongoing dispute with AstraZeneca and ongoing lawsuit against HRSA and HHS.

Ryan White Clinics for 340B Access told a federal district judge last week it needs time to assess how proposed new 340B administrative dispute resolution regulations, if finalized, could affect the 340B overcharging claims it brought against AstraZeneca under the

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340B Prime Vendor Sued for Allegedly Not Negotiating Sub-Ceiling Pricing on HIV/AIDS Drugs

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation says in a lawsuit that Apexus, the 340B prime vendor, fails and refuses to negotiate sub-ceiling 340B discounts on HIV/AIDS medicines.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation sued Apexus, the federally contracted 340B prime vendor, on Friday for allegedly failing and refusing to negotiate sub-ceiling 340B discounts on HIV/AIDS prescription drugs pursuant to its agreement with the government.

An Apexus spokesperson yesterday said it

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CMS Defends Delayed Fix for Illegal Medicare Drug Payment Cuts for 340B Hospitals

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CMS defends its decision to wait until next year to decide how to remedy illegal past cuts in 340B hospitals Part B drug reimbursement.

Federal health officials last week defended their plan to wait until next year to say how they will reimburse 340B hospitals for illegal Medicare Part B drug payment cuts in place for the past five years after hospital groups told

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A Closer Look at Tuesday’s Arguments in Federal Appeals Court Over the Legality of the 340B Contract Pharmacy Program

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Today 340B Report takes a closer look at Tuesday's oral arguments in federal circuit court in Philadelphia in three 340B contract pharmacy lawsuits.

On Tuesday we reported about oral arguments before a federal appeals court in Philadelphia in AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi’s lawsuits challenging federal agency findings that the companies’ conditions on 340B covered entities’ use of contract pharmacies violate the 340B statute.

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Two of Three Appeals Court Judges Question Government’s Stance That Drug Companies May Not Impose Conditions on 340B Sales

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Two judges on a three-judge federal appeals court panel in Philadelphia today questioned whether the 340B statute forbids drug manufacturers from imposing distribution conditions on offers of 340B pricing.

Two judges on a three-judge federal appeals court panel this morning challenged a federal government lawyer’s stance that federal law forbids drug manufacturers from limiting how their drugs may be distributed when they offer to sell the drugs at reduced

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Appeals Court To Hear Arguments Today in AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Suits

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A federal appeals court in Philadelphia is hearing arguments today in AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi’s 340B contract pharmacy lawsuits.

A federal appeals court in Philadelphia this morning is hearing arguments in AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi’s lawsuits challenging federal agency findings that the drug companies’ 340B contract pharmacy policies are illegal and must stop or the firms could be

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Arkansas and Providers File Briefs Defending State’s Novel 340B Contract Pharmacy Law in Important Fed. Court Case

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Arkansas insurance officials and Arkansas 340B providers filed briefs in federal district court defending the state's unique 340B contract pharmacy law.

Arkansas’s unique 340B contract pharmacy law is about drug delivery, not drug pricing, and thus does not conflict with the federal 340B statute, Arkansas state officials and 340B providers said recently in the latest volley in the drug industry’s federal

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Hospital Groups Ask Court Again to Make CMS Promptly Repay 340B Hospitals for Illegally Withheld Medicare Drug Reimbursement

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National hospital groups asked a federal judge again to order CMS to promptly repay 340B hospitals for illegally reduced Medicare Part B drug payments from 2018 through late September.

National hospital groups, as expected, late last week asked a judge again to order the federal government to promptly repay 340B hospitals for illegally reduced Medicare Part B drug payments from 2018 through late September. They asked the first time

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Breaking News

CMS Says It Will Announce Sometime Next Year How it Will Repay 340B Hospitals for Five Years of Illegal Drug Reimbursement Cuts

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CMS said late this afternoon it will put off until next year its decision on how it will comply with a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down five years of drug reimbursement cuts for 340B hospitals.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said late this afternoon that it will address how it will remedy five years of illegal Medicare Part B underpayments to hospitals for 340B purchased drugs “in future rulemaking,” rather than in

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