Category: Legislative

The U.S. Senate on Sunday passed historic legislation to let Medicare negotiate the prices of a small number of costly medicines and require drug manufacturers to pay Medicare rebates when prices paid by Medicare rise faster than inflation.

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About 100 safety-net provider advocates marched and chanted yesterday on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol to raise awareness in Congress and beyond about threats to the 340B drug pricing program.

The demonstration, organized by Community Voices for 340B (CV340B),

Senate Democrats said yesterday they would know this week whether an updated Senate drug pricing bill meets the criteria for passage via budget reconciliation, which requires just 50 Democratic votes. The bill remains on track for a floor vote before

Congress’ attitude toward the 340B program will likely change in 2023 and 2024 because of November’s midterm election results, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky predicts in his latest column for Omnicell.

It is customary for the party that

U.S. Senate Democrats are hopeful that drug pricing legislation will be passed by early next month via a budget reconciliation process requiring just 50 Democratic votes, a Democratic source with knowledge of the process told 340B Report.

“Our expectation is, we’re

A U.S. House Republican task force assigned to develop proposals the party can advance if the GOP takes the majority in the November elections apparently chose not to make recommendations for the 340B program.

The Healthy Future Task Force’s affordability

U.S. Senate Democrats’ revamped drug pricing legislation would lower the federal deficit by $287 billion over 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said late last week.

Last November, CBO estimated that drug pricing language in the House-passed Build Back

If Congress votes to gives Medicare the power to negotiate some drug prices, drug manufacturers would not have to provide price concessions that exceed the lower of a drug’s 340B price or the Medicare negotiated price, according to a summary