Maine state senators have introduced a bill to require 340B hospitals to file annual reports with detailed information on the savings they receive through 340B drug discounts, including annual 340B revenue the hospital generates minus 340B aggregate acquisition costs, and
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Requiring hospitals to report what they make from 340B drug discounts versus what they spend on charity care could be a first step toward tackling full-scale 340B program reform later, a senior Republican on the U.S. House committee with jurisdiction
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New York state on Saturday transferred Medicaid managed care drug benefits to Medicaid fee for service. Health centers and Ryan White clinics have vowed to keep fighting the change, which they say will cost them millions of dollars in 340B
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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.”
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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.
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