The U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) today referred six drug manufacturers to the U.S. Health and Human Services Department of the Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) regarding their refusal to offer 340B discounts to 340B covered
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Nine friend-of-the-court briefs have been filed in the nation’s highest court urging rejection of an appeals court’s decision last year that upheld a huge cut in 340B hospitals’ Medicare reimbursement for physician administered drugs.
Thirty-seven state and regional hospital associations
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Federal health officials are “trying to muscle an obligation” on drug manufacturers to honor 340B contract pharmacy arrangements “that simply is not there,” United Therapeutics (UT) said Tuesday in papers filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C.
Nothing in
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The U.S. Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) early this month invited community health centers to “resubmit a new” 340B administrative dispute resolution (ADR) petition against drug companies that deny or restrict 340B drug discounts when contract pharmacies are involved,
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Oral arguments previously scheduled for Sept. 14 in drugmaker AstraZeneca’s 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit against HHS and HRSA have been rescheduled for Oct. 18. The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware announced the new date for arguments on
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Drug manufacturer United Therapeutics’ (UT) denials of and restrictions on 340B drug discounts when covered entities use contract pharmacies are illegal and jeopardize patient care, six hospital groups have told a federal district judge in Washington, D.C.
The groups—American Hospital
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340B covered entities will get none of the $75 million Bristol Myers Squibb is paying California, 27 other states, and the federal government to settle claims it underreported its average manufacturer prices (AMPs) in order to underpay Medicaid drug rebates.
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A U.S. Supreme Court decision in late June about the appointment of federal administrative patent judges (APJs) could influence the outcome of several ongoing lawsuits over the 340B program’s administrative dispute resolution (ADR) process.
On June 21, the high court
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Federal officials relied “on sound statutory interpretation and sufficient evidence” when it concluded in May that United Therapeutics (UT) broke the law when it conditioned access to 340B pricing on its products, government lawyers told a federal district judge in
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