With just minutes to go in this year’s session, New Mexico lawmakers recently passed a bill to stop pharmacy benefit managers from discriminating against 340B providers including reimbursing them at a lower rate than other providers. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
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If New York State transfers Medicaid managed care drug benefits to Medicaid fee for service on Saturday as scheduled, “it will all but eliminate the savings that safety-net providers have realized through the 340B program and the revenues on which
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said today that the 340B program “doesn’t have the transparency we need” and “we are going to do what we can to make it more transparent.”
Becerra was asked about the drug
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The 340B program was discussed at length today during a U.S. House subcommittee hearing on price transparency and consolidation in health care, with three Republicans questioning whether hospitals are abusing the program and two Democrats and a Republican cautioning against
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Ryan White Clinics for 340B Access has announced it opposes the drug industry’s joint plan with community health centers to restructure the 340B program, saying it will increase manufacturers’ “already astronomical profits at the expense of safety net providers.”
Hemophilia
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The clock is ticking down in New York state to the scheduled April 1 transfer of Medicaid managed care drug benefits to Medicaid fee for service—a move that 340B safety net providers say would result in financial disaster.
Evergreen Health,
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A bill has been introduced in Texas to stop Medicaid managed care organizations and their pharmacy benefit managers from reimbursing pharmacies for 340B-acquired drugs at less than what Texas Medicaid pays for the same 340B drugs.
Texas House Bill 1293
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The fallout continues from drug makers and health centers’ decision to work together to change the 340B program, with the drug industry giving its first interview about the deal to 340B Report on Friday and several hospital groups jointly blasting
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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s novel bill to require hospital reporting on 340B revenue, prohibit drug maker restrictions on 340B contract pharmacy use, and prohibit pharmacy benefit manager discrimination against 340B entities and pharmacies has passed its first test in the
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