Six Democratic and Republican U.S. senators this morning asked 340B drug pricing program stakeholders for input on “bipartisan policy solutions that would ensure the program has stability and oversight to continue to achieve its original intention of serving eligible patients.”
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U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Senate Finance Committee ranking Republican Mike Crapo (Idaho) are soliciting public input on what’s driving the increase in drug shortages, including whether or not the 340B drug pricing
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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