One of two groups of Florida health care providers that drug maker Gilead accused of making fraudulent 340B-related transactions involving the company’s HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs agreed last week to settle Gilead’s claims against it for $33 million.
A mediation
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A U.S. Supreme Court decision last week about the Medicare disproportionate share adjustment percentage calculation will have little effect on hospitals currently in the 340B drug pricing program, experts say. It could mean, though, that some on the cusp of
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous June 15 ruling that huge cuts in 340B hospitals’ Medicare Part B drug reimbursement were unlawful “is a clear and much welcome victory for 340B hospitals,” 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky says in
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Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that huge cuts in 340B hospitals’ Medicare Part B drug reimbursement in 2018 and 2019 were unlawful. It marked the end of Phase 1 of the debate over the cuts.
Phase 2 is gearing
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UPDATE, June 15, 2022, 12:45 p.m. EDT—The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said, “We are aware and reviewing the decision.”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously this morning that the federal government unlawfully slashed Medicare Part
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Drug manufacturers Novartis and United Therapeutics (UT) last night urged a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to affirm a lower court’s November 2021 judgement that the 340B statute does not stop manufacturers from attaching any conditions to 340B drug
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A federal district court’s ruling last October that federal law requires drug manufacturers to deliver 340B purchased drugs to contract pharmacies conflicts with two other courts’ conclusions, “upsets the delicate statutory balance Congress struck, and raises serious constitutional problems,” drug
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The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last week again asked a federal district court in Sacramento to dismiss a group of California health centers’ claims for relief over CMS’s approval of the state’s transfer of Medicaid managed
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A Tennessee health system last week denied U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) allegations that agreements under the system’s seven-year affiliation with a private oncology practice were “a fiction” perpetuated partially to let the system “realize profits from the 340B program.”
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Groups representing health centers, HIV/AIDS clinics, and hospitals asked federal appeals courts in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., this week to hold that drug manufacturers must give covered entities 340B discounts on drugs when entities use contract pharmacies to fill prescriptions
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