BREAKING: Developments in AstraZeneca’s 340B Lawsuit

AbbVie and AstraZeneca filed a pair of lawsuits to block Minnesota's law barring manufacturer 340B contract pharmacy restrictions.

A federal district judge in Wilmington, Del., this morning gave the federal government until 11:00 a.m. Eastern tomorrow to respond to AstraZeneca’s emergency motion yesterday for a stay in its lawsuit over the government’s efforts to compel it to resume

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Drugmakers Show No Sign So Far of Giving in to HRSA on 340B Contract Pharmacy

So far, drug manufacturers have shown no sign of obeying HRSA's order to resume 340B pricing without regard to how drugs are dispensed. | Shutterstock

Six drug companies have shown no sign so far of acquiescing to the federal government’s order on Monday to immediately resume 340B pricing on their products dispensed by contract pharmacies.

340B covered entities yesterday reported seeing no evidence that Eli

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Health Centers, HIV/AIDS Clinics, and Feds Agree on Keeping Stays in Place in 340B Lawsuits

In separate status reports to a federal judge last night, health centers and the government, and HIV/AIDS clinics and the government, agreed to keep stays in place in lawsuits involving 340B contract pharmacy. | Shutterstock

The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) last night proposed that a federal district judge should maintain the stay in NACHC’s suit against the government stemming from drug manufacturers’ denials of 340B pricing

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HHS Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Reject 340B Hospital Request to Hear Medicare Part B Case

HHS has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decline taking up 340B hospital suit on Medicare Part B reimbursement.

While 340B hospitals eagerly await to see the Biden administration’s plans for Medicare Part B reimbursement, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last night asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an effort by hospital groups to

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DOJ Cites 1996 HRSA Letter to PhRMA in Request to Dismiss Novo Nordisk’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Suit

DOJ says Novo Nordisk’s claim that HHS's 340B contract pharmacy advisory opinion would make it break the law “is mere legerdemain.”

Novo Nordisk’s claim that a federal legal advisory opinion on 340B contract pharmacy would make it unlawfully transfer its drugs to ineligible pharmacies and ineligible patients “is mere legerdemain” (slight of hand), government lawyers for U.S. Health and Human Services

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Lilly Wants Judge To Schedule June Arguments in 340B Suit Against HHS

Drug maker Eli Lilly's motion yesterday in its 340B contract pharmacy lawsuit against HHS mainly covered the same ground as in its original January complaint. | Shutterstock

Drug manufacturer Eli Lilly yesterday asked a federal district judge in Indianapolis to schedule oral argument as soon as mid-June in its lawsuit challenging both a federal legal advisory opinion about 340B contract pharmacy and the 340B program’s new administrative

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Multiple Developments in AstraZeneca’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Lawsuit

There were a handful of significant developments this week AstraZeneca's lawsuit to derail an HHS advisory opinion on 340B contract pharmacy.

The plain language of the 340B statute “explicitly requires drug manufacturers to offer 340B discounts to 340B covered entities regardless of whether the drugs are dispensed by the entity or by an outside pharmacy with which the entity has a

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State Attorney General Is Investigating Lilly and AstraZeneca’s 340B Pricing

Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca are the latest drug makers to disclose that they have been subpoenaed by Vermont's top law enforcement official for documents and information about their participation in 340B. | Shutterstock

Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca are the latest drug makers to disclose they have received a subpoena from the Vermont attorney general’s office related to their denials of 340B ceiling prices on drugs shipped to contract pharmacies.

Lilly and

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Vermont AG Issues Subpoena to Novartis for 340B Documents and Information

Novartis is the second known drug manufacturer subpoenaed by the Vermont attorney general over manufacturer denials of or restrictions on 340B pricing for drugs shipped to contract pharmacies.

Vermont’s top law enforcement official has asked a second drug manufacturer—Novartis—for documents and information concerning the company’s participation in the 340B program in the state.

Tuesday in its interim financial report for the first quarter of 2021, the Swiss

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Hospitals Could Get Another Shot to Intervene in AstraZeneca’s 340B Lawsuit

A federal judge in Delaware yesterday left the door open to letting hospital groups participate as third parties in a drugmaker’s lawsuit challenging the federal government’s 340B program contract pharmacy enforcement mechanisms. | Shutterstock

A federal judge in Delaware yesterday declined to add hospital groups as third parties to a drugmaker’s lawsuit challenging the federal government’s 340B program contract pharmacy enforcement mechanisms. But he left the door open to letting the groups participate as

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