Category: Legislative

Oregon Enacts 340B Anti-Discrimination Protections in PBM Regulations

April 9, 2024 Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) recently signed a bill with prohibitions on certain 340B-specific PBM and payer policies.

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and insurers operating in Oregon are barred from restricting 340B drug dispensing or limiting the number [...]

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Hospitals Raise Concerns on Biden Drug Shortage Proposal

April 9, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

HHS recently released a proposal to address drug shortages with measures focused on both hospitals and drug manufacturers.

While the Biden administration’s proposal to address drug shortages does not exempt certain drug products from 340B pricing like the [...]

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Maryland, Kansas Send 340B Contract Pharmacy Access Bills to Their Governors

April 8, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

The Maryland legislature cleared a 340B contract pharmacy access bill the day after the Kansas legislature approved a state budget bill with similar 340B provisions.

The Maryland and Kansas legislatures have each cleared bills that would prohibit drug manufacturer 340B contract pharmacy restrictions in their [...]

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Mississippi Legislature Sends 340B Contract Pharmacy Protection Bill to The Governor

April 4, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

The Mississippi state house and senate have passed a bill to prohibit drugmaker 340B contract pharmacy restrictions.

The Mississippi state senate yesterday overwhelmingly cleared for the governor’s consideration a bill to prohibit drugmaker 340B contract pharmacy restrictions, [...]

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Tennessee Bill Targeting 340B In-Kind Funding Heads to Governor’s Desk

April 4, 2024 Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

The Tennessee legislature cleared a bill, by state Rep. Esther Helton-Haynes (R), that tightens requirements for 340B in-kind funding for STD clinics.

Sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics in Tennessee may soon have to enter into contracts to receive 340B in-kind funding—and for-profit [...]

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340B Stakeholders Clash on Patient Definition, 340B Spending Requirements in Comments on Senate ‘Group of Six’ Draft Overhaul

April 4, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Advocacy groups for providers and drugmakers had diverging views in their comments on a draft Senate 340B overhaul.

Stakeholders disagreed on whether Congress should codify a new 340B patient definition or restrict how providers use 340B savings, in [...]

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Contract Pharmacies Have Proliferated, Conservative Group Says, Citing Data from Pharma-Funded Think Tank

April 4, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

A Paragon Health Institute analysis found the share of 340B contract pharmacies per covered entity has increased in recent years.

Active 340B contract pharmacies reached 17,250 in 2024, according to a conservative think tank using data collected by another group funded by [...]

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Four More Drugmakers to End 340B Contract Pharmacy Restrictions in Arkansas Following Appeals Court Decision

April 2, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

At least nine drugmakers have modified their contract pharmacy restrictions in Arkansas after the state said it planned to enforce its 340B law following an appeals court decision. An additional nine manufacturers loosened restrictions prior to the court decision.

Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), Amgen, and Bayer became the latest drugmakers to formally exempt Arkansas providers from their 340B contract [...]

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West Virginia Providers Praise Newly Passed State 340B Contract Pharmacy Protection Law

March 28, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

West Virginia providers said they strongly support the 340B contract pharmacy protection bill that Gov. Jim Justice (R) signed into law on March 27.

West Virginia provider groups are applauding a newly passed law to bar drugmaker 340B contract pharmacy restrictions in the state [...]

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Mississippi Senate Committee Approves State House’s 340B Contract Pharmacy, PBM Bill

March 28, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Chad Netterville, director of the MHA Center for Rural Health, said Mississippi's 340B contract pharmacy bill is "seeing more opposition" as it advances in the state legislature but he remains optimistic about its passage.

Two weeks after the Mississippi House passed a bill to bar drugmaker 340B contract pharmacy restrictions and certain 340B-specific pharmacy [...]

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