Part 4 of 6—How Do Celgene’s Revlimid Policies Affect 340B Hospitals and Patient Care?
The impact on health care providers of being unable to access Revlimid at the 340B price is significant, financially and in terms of patient care, according
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Category: Judicial
Part 3 of 6—The Path From Thalidomide, to Revlimid, to a 340B Whistleblower Lawsuit
The myeloma drugs Revlimid and Pomalyst are analogues of Thalomid, aka thalidomide—a drug that still haunts those who remember the late 1950s and early 1960s. Marketed
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Part 2 of 6—A Pharmaceutical Industry Insider’s Claims of Massive Fraud Against 340B Providers
Editor’s note: We invited Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), which bought Celgene in November 2019, to respond to allegations of illegal or
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Part 1 of 6—Why Can So Few 340B Hospitals Buy and Dispense the Highly Profitable Cancer Drug Revlimid?
Possibly more than a thousand hospitals in the 340B drug discount program can’t buy or dispense Revlimid, a widely-used oral drug
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Drug manufacturer Novartis told a judge last week that the government’s May 17 public statement that the company’s actions have resulted in overcharges and are in direct violation of the 340B statute has injured Novartis’ reputation among its customers and
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A federal district judge in Trenton, N.J., this week denied drug makers’ Novo Nordisk and Sanofi’s motions to temporarily stop federal health officials from forcing the companies to immediately resume offering 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies. If
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National hospital groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court last Friday to review and reverse a federal appellate decision upholding a steep cut in hospitals’ Medicare Part B reimbursement for 340B-purchased drugs.
The American Hospital Association (AHA), the Association of American
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Novartis Pharmaceuticals has sued the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) over the agency’s May 17 letter telling the company its restrictions on 340B pricing to covered entities that use contract pharmacies are illegal.
Novartis told 340B Report late
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A federal district judge in Indianapolis late this afternoon declined to temporarily restrain federal health officials from requiring drug maker Eli Lilly, based on a May 17 enforcement letter, to provide 340B discounts on drugs dispensed by contract pharmacies. Nonetheless,
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Drug makers Sanofi and Novo Nordisk and the federal government filed briefs Tuesday and Wednesday in federal district court in New Jersey in those two manufacturers’ separate challenges to the contract pharmacy requirements.
Sanofi and Novo Nordisk are seeking emergency
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