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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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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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’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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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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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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A South Carolina health center and the federal government are sparring over whether the center should have access to more information from the government than it already possesses in its fight to clarify the 340B patient definition.
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Appeals Court Questions Yet Again if it Has Jurisdiction Over Lilly’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Case
A federal appeals court judge in Chicago expressed doubt during a hearing this morning that the court can review a lower court decision in drug manufacturer Eli Lilly’s 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit.
Judge Frank Easterbrook, the senior judge on the
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Now that a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has heard arguments in Novartis and United Therapeutics’ 340B contract pharmacy lawsuits, the scene shifts to Chicago, where an appeals court will hear arguments Monday morning in Eli Lilly’s companion case.
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