The Arkansas legislature on Tuesday passed what is believed to be the first bill nationally to address pharmaceutical manufacturer denials of 340B pricing on drugs when they are dispensed by contract pharmacies. …
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President Biden has left out of his American Families human-capital investment plan drug pricing reforms that Democratic leaders in Congress have pressed him hard to add. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), …
President Biden might exclude legislation to reduce what consumers and the federal government pay for prescription drugs from his American Families human and capital investment initiative, news organizations report this morning. Biden is scheduled to describe his infrastructure investment plan …
U.S. House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Chair Frank Pallone this morning introduced a significantly slimmed-down version of H.R. 3, the drug pricing bill that the House passed during the last session of Congress but the then-GOP-controlled Senate let die. …
The U.S. House of Representatives passed two bills last week intended to reduce the overall costs of medications by boosting competition for generic drugs and biosimilars. As both bills were previously passed by the Senate, they are headed to President …
Andrea Palm, President Biden’s pick to be the number two official at the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS), pledged during her U.S. Senate confirmation hearing this morning to make sure that the 340B “is working as it is …
Drugmakers and others who want more reporting requirements for 340B hospitals might take heart from bipartisan concern in Congress about hospitals evading new price transparency rules. | Shutterstock …
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The U.S. Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Thursday morning on President Biden’s nominations of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to run the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Andrea Palm to be U.S. Health and Human Services …
Congressional Medicaid policy advisers voted Friday to recommend raising the Medicaid rebate percentage and inflation penalty on drugs that are quickly and conditionally approved to treat serious conditions that fill an unmet need. If Congress follows the advice, 340B covered …
New York state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) agreed this week to postpone transferring Medicaid managed care prescription drug benefits to Medicaid fee for service (FFS) for two years, temporarily averting a significant financial loss to 340B covered entities. …