Category: Judicial
Federal health care officials can’t make a South Carolina health center obey their reading of the 340B patient definition for the same reason a federal appeals court said in January that the officials can’t force drug manufacturers to deliver 340B
…Drug industry trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and drug manufacturer Bristol Myers Squibb have filed separate federal lawsuits to stop Medicare from negotiating the prices of some drugs, charging that it would impose unconstitutional price controls on
…The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and three state and local affiliates are asking a federal court to strike down the part of the Inflation Reduction Act that lets Medicare negotiate “maximum fair prices” (MFPs) for some expensive, single-source drugs, arguing
…Federal Medicare drug price negotiation “is tantamount to extortion” and must be struck down as unconstitutional, drug manufacturer Merck told a federal district court yesterday.
Merck on Tuesday became the first drug maker to sue to stop the federal government
…New York State is appealing a state trial court’s dismissal of its antitrust case against CVS Health that alleges the pharmacy giant unlawfully forces 340B covered entities to use its 340B third party administrator Wellpartner in order to contract with
…The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Health Resources and Services Administration “are unable to predict” when they will finally replace HRSA’s 340B administrative dispute resolution process, the government said in a recent legal filing.
The government
…The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has sent its proposed remedy for almost five years of illegal Medicare Part B drug payments cuts for 340B hospitals to the White House for clearance to be published in the Federal
…Arkansas’ 340B contract pharmacy law, for now the only state law of its kind, has no place in the federal 340B “closed system,” Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) recently told a federal appeals court.
“340B is a closed
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