Category: Legislative

A U.S. House Energy & Commerce subcommittee plans next week to markup bills on transparency and competition in health care and send them to the full committee for votes before Memorial Day. Although its Republican vice chair’s draft 340B bill

Former Republican Congressman Dan Burton (Ind.) called the 340B program “a win for all parties involved” in a Kokomo, Indiana newspaper op-ed this week and said a current House Republican’s 340B bill could deny vulnerable Hoosiers access to care.

Rep.

A U.S. Senate committee is attempting to mark up bipartisan legislation today to reform the pharmacy benefit management industry. The draft bill itself does not address the 340B program. Republican Sen. Mike Braun (Ind.), however, has filed an amendment for

An American Hospital Association senior executive told a U.S. House subcommittee yesterday her group opposes creating “significant new reporting requirements for 340B hospitals that do not reflect the true value or intent of the 340B program.”

But when asked by

The 340B program has evolved into a “buy low, sell high” drug pricing system abused by some hospitals that have profits as their main goal, a health policy researcher told lawmakers Wednesday at a U.S. House subcommittee hearing.

The House

U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.), vice chair of the House Energy & Commerce health subcommittee, has written a bill to impose significant 340B program reporting requirements on disproportionate share hospitals and potentially other covered entities. Meanwhile, two bills have been

U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration Administrator Carole Johnson said on Capitol Hill yesterday that HRSA would welcome congressional help ensuring there is “accountability and transparency” in the 340B program.

Johnson was answering questions from Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) during