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Stakeholders React to HELP Committee Chair Cassidy’s 340B Probe Findings, Reform Recommendations

Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views
340B stakeholders offered mixed responses to the findings of U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy's (R-La.) investigation into the 340B program.
340B hospitals, contract pharmacies, health center advocates and the drug industry offered mixed responses Thursday on the long-awaited findings and [...]

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Senate HELP Committee Chair Cassidy Calls for Federal 340B Reforms, Releases Findings of Yearslong Congressional Probe

Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) laid out a series of potential policies Congress could adopt to “bring much-needed reform to the 340B program” in a 195-page report, which summarized the findings of the investigation he launched in 2023—as the HELP panel’s top Republican—into how certain hospitals, health centers, chain pharmacies and drugmakers operate their 340B programs.
The leader of a key U.S. Senate Committee tasked with overseeing the 340B program called Thursday for Congress to improve [...]

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340B Lobbying Remained Strong in Early 2025, Filings Show

Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views
Just over 300 firms listed the 340B program in their first quarter lobbying disclosure forms that were due April 21.
While much of the focus in Washington, D.C. has been on confirmation hearings and budget matters, the 340B program continued [...]

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Indiana Legislature Passes Sweeping 340B Hospital Reporting Bill, Sends to Gov. Braun

William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views
Both chambers of the Indiana legislature on April 23 passed a 340B hospital reporting bill.
Indiana lawmakers yesterday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would require state hospitals to annually report extensive financial and operational information [...]

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State Contract Pharmacy Lawsuit Roundup: Appellate Court Briefings on 340B Laws in West Virginia, Louisiana

William Newton and Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views
Key briefs were filed recently in state contract pharmacy litigation in two federal appeals court.
Editor’s Note: With 340B-related litigation heating up in several states following the enactment of new contract pharmacy access laws, 340B [...]

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Leaked HHS Budget Document Details Plans to Move 340B Program to CMS

Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views
The Trump administration appears to detail its plans to move the 340B program from HRSA to CMS in a reportedly leaked internal budget document.
President Donald Trump’s (R) preliminary budget appears to call for “new authority to regulate all aspects of the 340B program,” [...]

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Tennessee Legislature Approves Scaled-Back Bill Barring Future Drugmaker 340B Restrictions Placed After July 2025

William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views
The Tennessee House and Senate both passed a scaled-back 340B contract pharmacy access bill on April 16 after a last-minute amendment.
Both chambers of the Tennessee Legislature yesterday passed a scaled-back contract pharmacy access bill that would block manufacturers from placing [...]

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Oregon, Oklahoma Advance 340B Contract Pharmacy Access Bills

William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views
The Oregon House voted to approve a 340B contract pharmacy access bill on April 14, the same day that Oklahoma lawmakers advanced a similar bill.
State legislators in Oregon and Oklahoma voted yesterday to advance separate bills that would prohibit drugmakers from placing 340B contract [...]

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AbbVie Sues Three More States Over Newly Enacted 340B Contract Pharmacy Access Laws

William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views
AbbVie has filed lawsuits against four of the five states that have enacted 340B contract pharmacy access laws in 2025.
Pharmaceutical giant AbbVie recently filed lawsuits against the states of Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota over their newly enacted [...]

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HHS Briefs House E&C Committee Staff on Restructuring, Senate HELP Postpones Kennedy Hearing

Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was tentatively set to testify before the Senate HELP panel April 10 on his department's restructuring, a hearing which was ultimately postponed.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials last week briefed the Republican and Democratic staff of a key [...]

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