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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Category: Judicial
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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Two of three judges on a federal appeals court panel yesterday repeatedly asked lawyers during a highly anticipated hearing in Washington, D.C., what standard the court should use to decide whether drug manufacturers’ 340B contract pharmacy conditions are legal.
The
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The New York State attorney general last week reasserted that CVS Health abused its market power by forcing 340B covered entities who use CVS to dispense 340B-priced drugs to use the retail chain’s third-party administrator Wellpartner to process their 340B
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The federal government and a Tennessee health system are meeting with a mediator in connection with a whistleblower lawsuit that alleges that the system paid Memphis-area cancer physicians for referrals that generated $50 million in profits in one year alone
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In Key Hearing, Appeals Court Panel Seems to Lean in Favor of Some Drug Manufacturer Conditions on 340B Pricing
Two of three judges on a federal appeals court panel strongly indicated this morning that they reject the federal government’s position that nothing in the 340B statute gives drug manufacturers the right to put any conditions on offers of 340B
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The 340B program “has always been uniquely federal in nature” and “there is no room for states, pharmacies, or other interests to step in and try to supplant” the federal government’s exclusive control over it, the brand drug industry said
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A federal district judge on Monday cleared the way for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in as quickly as two weeks to resume paying hospitals at the rate of average sales price (ASP) plus 6% for their
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