Federal lawyers asked a judge on Friday to let federal health officials decide how to give 340B hospitals relief for illegal Medicare Part B drug payment cuts since 2018.
In papers filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
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A federal jury in Illinois last week ordered drug manufacturer Lilly to pay more than $61 million in damages for misstating its average manufacturer prices (AMP) and underpaying Medicaid drug rebates.
AMP is a key component used to determine 340B
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The U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) asked a federal district judge late last week not to make it rush its response to hospitals’ request for an immediate halt to a nearly 30% Medicare Part B payment cut in
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Groups that represent 340B hospitals yesterday asked a federal district judge in Washington, D.C., to immediately halt a nearly 30% Medicare Part B payment cut in place since 2018 for hospitals’ 340B-purchased drugs.
American Hospital Association, America’s Essential Hospitals, Association
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New York State Attorney General Letitia James today sued CVS Health for allegedly forcing the state’s 340B covered entities to use CVS’s 340B third party administrator Wellpartner as a condition for letting the entities contract with CVS retail and specialty
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There’s been a burst of activity in federal appellate lawsuits over the legality of drug manufacturers’ conditions on 340B pricing involving contract pharmacies.
During the past two weeks, AstraZeneca, Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi filed briefs restating their belief that
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Hospital groups and health systems asked a federal appeals court on Monday to send their successful U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit over Medicare Part B reimbursement cuts for 340B drugs back to a district court for more proceedings. “The government does
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The clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday formally notified the clerk of a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., and lawyers for three hospital groups and three health systems of the high court’s June 15 judgement in the
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Pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts unfairly uses a Medicare pharmacy ratings system to wrongly claw back millions of dollars in drug reimbursement from pharmacies participating in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) alleges in a
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A federal district judge was right to rule last November that drug makers Novo Nordisk and Sanofi may not tie strings to 340B pricing when providers use contract pharmacies, the federal government told a federal appeals court in Philadelphia last
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