Nevada Legislature Passes 340B Nondiscrimination Bill

Nevada state capitol
Nevada lawmakers passed and sent to the governor a bill to stop PBM and insurance company discrimination against 340B covered entities.

Nevada lawmakers have unanimously passed and sent to the state’s governor legislation prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers and health insurance carriers from discriminating against 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies.

The state Assembly voted 42-0 on June 3 and the

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Final Connecticut Bill Excludes Both 340B Transparency and Contract Pharmacy Provisions

Connecticut Senate
The Connecticut Senate gave final passage to legislation that bars PBM discrimination against 340B entities. But it does not bar manufacturers from limiting contract pharmacy use in 340B nor require 340B entities to report on their program savings.

Connecticut will not, after all, be the first state to require 340B covered entities to file reports on their 340B program savings and how they use them, under a bill the state Senate gave final passage to late last night.

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Protest Held at Indiana Congressman’s State Office Against His 340B Hospital Reporting Bill

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation advocates marched yesterday outside U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon's (R-Ind.) Terre Haute, Ind., office to protest Bucshon's bill to impose reporting requirements on 340B hospitals and potentially other covered entities.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation staged a march yesterday outside U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon’s (R-Ind.) Terre Haute office to protest his bill that would require 340B disproportionate share hospitals to report data about patients who get 340B drugs, spending on charity care,

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Connecticut Looks Like It Will Be First State to Require 340B Covered Entity Reporting

Connecticut state capitol
Connecticut state senators introduced a bill that would implement annual 340B provider reporting requirements shortly after a health office reporting to the governor proposed similar legislation.

Connecticut lawmakers are expected soon to pass a significantly revised version of Gov. Ned Lamont’s (D) health care cost reduction bill stripped of language that would have barred drug manufacturers from limiting use of contract pharmacies and imposing other conditions

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Louisiana Is Poised to be Second State to Enact 340B Contract Pharmacy Law

Louisiana state capitol
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) is expected to sign a bill prohibiting drug company limits on 340B contract pharmacy relationships and pharmacy benefit manager encroachment on health care providers’ 340B program revenue.

The Louisiana Senate voted unanimously Sunday to pass and send to Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) a bill prohibiting drug manufacturer limits on 340B contract pharmacy relationships and pharmacy benefit manager encroachment on health care providers’ 340B program revenues.

Edwards

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Massachusetts 340B Nondiscrimination Bills Would Restore Program’s Intent, Sponsor Says

Massachusetts state Sen. Pavel Payano
Massachusetts state Sen. Pavel Payano

Companion bills in the Massachusetts House and Senate would restore the 340B program’s intent by stopping pharmacy benefit manager discrimination against any 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies, the sponsor of the state Senate bill said during a recent

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340B Report Publisher and CEO: Is a Contract Pharmacy Breakthrough at Hand?

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Hospital groups' decision to back federal 340B contract pharmacy legislation could be a long-awaited breakthrough, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky says.

Hospital groups’ decision to support letting Congress end the 340B contract pharmacy standoff could be the breakthrough the field has been waiting for, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky writes in his latest column for Verity Solutions.

“National hospital

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House GOP Rejects Democrats’ Push to Link 340B Transparency and Contract Pharmacy

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House E&C Democrat Scott Peters (Calif.) spoke in favor of, and fellow Democrat Debbie Dingell (Mich.) spoke against, a Republican bill to impose reporting requirements on 340B DSH hospitals.

Congressional GOP backers of federal reporting requirements for 340B hospitals yesterday rejected Democratic arguments that fairness dictates that those requirements be paired with 340B contract pharmacy requirements for drug manufacturers.

U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee Republicans, joined by just

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Breaking News

House E&C Committee Passes Two Bills That Would Create 340B Entity Reporting Requirements

Energy & Commerce Committee
The House E&C Committee passed a bill to impose reporting requirements on 340B DSH hospitals and potentially other entities. The committee passed another bill that could expose all types of 340B covered entities to separate reporting requirements.

The House Energy & Commerce Committee passed two bills today to impose 340B program reporting requirements on hospitals and other health care providers.

They were among 19 health care, telecommunications, and energy bills that the committee marked up today.

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House E&C Committee to Vote Tomorrow on Bills That Would Bring Big Changes to 340B

House E&C Committee
The House E&C Committee tomorrow will markup two bills that 340B providers are watching very closely.

340B provider groups won some concessions on controversial Medicaid managed care drug billing language that the full U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee is marking up tomorrow, lobbyists say. Efforts to get more changes continue.

The committee announced late

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