U.S. District Court Orders 340B Report to Destroy and Not Divulge Legally Obtained Information in 340B Patient Definition Case

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A federal district court ordered 340B Report to destroy and not divulge the contents of legally obtained records filed by the federal government in a lawsuit over the 340B patient definition.

A federal district court in South Carolina ordered 340B Report late yesterday to destroy and not release information from more than 9,000 pages of documents that the federal government filed in a public database Thursday in a community health center’s

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PhRMA Takes its Fight Against Arkansas 340B Law to Federal Appeals Court

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PhRMA has asked the federal appeals court in St. Louis to overturn a lower court's ruling that federal law does not preempt Arkansas’s novel 340B anti-discrimination law.

Brand drug manufacturers have asked a federal appeals court to overturn a judge’s ruling last month that Arkansas’s novel 340B anti-discrimination law is not preempted by the 340B statute nor by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Risk Evaluation and

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Amgen Sues HHS in Defense of the Company’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Restrictions

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Amgen yesterday sued HHS and HRSA in defense of its conditions on 340B pricing when hospitals use contract pharmacies.

Biopharmaceutical manufacturer Amgen yesterday became the 10th drug manufacturer to sue the federal government over the government’s position that the 340B statute requires drug companies to provide 340B-priced drugs to multiple contract pharmacies without conditions.

California-based Amgen filed suit

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340B Report Analysis: Federal 340B Law Gives States Room to Regulate their Own Drug Distribution Systems, Judge Rules in Arkansas Contract Pharmacy Case

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A federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., held that the state's novel 340B anti-discrimination law is not preempted by federal laws.

As we reported on deadline on Tuesday, a federal district court ruled this week that Arkansas’ novel 340B antidiscrimination law is not preempted by federal laws governing the 340B program, a decision that strikes down one of two legal arguments

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Breaking: Federal Law Doesn’t Preempt Arkansas’s Novel 340B Contract Pharmacy Law, Judge Rules

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The Arkansas Insurance Department will imminently enforce a state 340B contract pharmacy law following a key federal appeals court decision.

A federal district judge ruled yesterday that Arkansas’s novel 340B anti-discrimination law is not preempted by the 340B statute nor by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies requirements.

U.S. Senior District Judge Billy Roy Wilson’s

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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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