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BREAKING: Judge Nixes Hospital Groups’ Participation in AstraZeneca’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Case

Six hospital groups cannot participate as third parties in drug manufacturer AstraZeneca’s lawsuit against the government over its 340B contract pharmacy requirements, a judge ruled this morning in federal district court in Wilmington, Del. (pictured).

A federal district judge in Wilmington, Del., ruled this morning that six hospital groups cannot participate as third parties in drug manufacturer AstraZeneca’s lawsuit against the government over its 340B contract pharmacy requirements.

In a ruling delivered from the bench,

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Feds Asks Courts to Reject Lilly and Sanofi’s 340B “Self-Help”

Lawyers for HHS have asked federal courts in Indianapolis (above) and New Jersey to dismiss 340B-related lawsuits against the department brought by drugmakers Eli Lilly and Sanofi.

U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) lawyers asked federal district courts in Indiana and New Jersey this week to condemn, not condone, drugmakers Eli Lilly and Sanofi’s “extra-statutory self-help efforts to rewrite” the 340B statute “under the guise of ‘program integrity’” and

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HHS Tells Judge 340B Dispute Resolution Is Back on Track and It Is Weighing Other Pharma Enforcement Steps

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) can “move forward with implementing” the stalled 340B administrative dispute resolution (ADR) process, and it is “actively considering additional options for agency enforcement of the 340B statute” against drug manufacturers denying 340B

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AstraZeneca Tells Court: Congress Didn’t Make 340B to Generate Profits for Providers

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

Congress never intended for safety-net health care providers to make money by buying prescriptions drugs at a discount through the 340B program and billing payers at above the drugs’ acquisition cost, drug manufacturer AstraZeneca (AZN) told a federal district court

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340B Entities Won’t Share in BMS’s $75 Million Medicaid Drug Pricing Settlement

A whistleblower alleged that Bristol-Myers Squibb misreported prices on more than 200 drug products, reducing Medicaid rebates it owed to states.

340B covered entities were not included in Bristol-Myers Squibb’s $75 million settlement last week of a whistleblower’s claims that BMS “falsely reported improperly reduced average manufacturer prices” (AMPs) on multiple drugs from October 2007 through March 2016.

Ronald Streck, former

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For-Profit Hospitals Back Medicare’s 340B Hospital Cuts in Legal Brief, Study, and Blog

The Federation of American Hospitals, led by its President and CEO Chip Kahn, is making its strongest effort to date to preserve Medicare drug reimbursement cuts for 340B hospitals.

The association for U.S. for-profit hospitals yesterday made its strongest pitch yet to preserve the nearly 30 percent cut in what Medicare pays many public and private nonprofit hospitals for physician-administered, 340B-purchased drugs.

The Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) submitted

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For-Profit Hospitals Make Major Pitch for Keeping Medicare’s 340B Hospital Cuts

United Therapeutics says that, starting May 13, entities must upload their 340B contract pharmacy claims data to its vendor 340B ESP twice monthly to "be eligible to place Bill To / Ship To replenishment orders for United Therapeutics products dispensed through a contract pharmacy.”

The association for U.S. for-profit hospitals submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court and released a study today arguing against reversing the nearly 30 percent cut in what Medicare pays many public and private nonprofit hospitals for physician-administered, 340B-purchased

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Feds Oppose Hospitals’ Intervention in Three More Pharma 340B Lawsuits

The federal government has asked three more federal judges to not let hospital groups intervene in drug manufacturers' lawsuits challenging HHS's 340B contract pharmacy requirements. | Shutterstock

The federal government has asked federal district judges in Indianapolis, Delaware, and New Jersey to deny hospital groups’ requests for active roles in drug manufacturers Eli Lilly’s, AstraZeneca’s, and Sanofi’s lawsuits against the government over its 340B contract pharmacy requirements.

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HRSA Takes Step Forward on 340B Dispute Resolution Petitions

HRSA this week notified 340B covered entities that it had finished reviewing their administrative dispute resolution petitions for completeness, and determined that they were complete. | Shutterstock

The federal government on Tuesday declared 340B administrative dispute resolution (ADR) petitions by covered entities against drug manufacturers AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi to be “complete,” a sign that claims against two of the three companies—AstraZeneca and Sanofi—are ready for

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Feds Oppose Hospitals’ Motion to Intervene in Novo Nordisk’s 340B Lawsuit

The federal government said this week that hospital groups should not be allowed to participate as third parties in Novo Nordisk's lawsuit against the government over enforcement of its 340B contract pharmacy requirements.

The federal government on Monday strongly objected to letting six hospital groups participate as third parties in drug manufacturer Novo Nordisk’s lawsuit challenging the government’s 340B contract pharmacy requirements.

The government’s March 22 brief in opposition the groups’ motion to

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