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Major Drug Industry and Health Center Groups Unite to Reform 340B for Patients and “True” Safety-Net Providers

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PhRMA, NACHC, and and the National Hispanic Medical Association created a new group, ASAP 340B, and issued a 10-point plan to ensure that the 340B program “benefits patients and true safety-net providers, including rural hospitals.”

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the National Association of Community Health Centers, and the National Hispanic Medical Association this morning jointly issued a 10-point plan and created a nonprofit group to ensure that the 340B program “benefits patients and

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U.S. House Oversight Committee Launches PBM Investigation

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A U.S. House committee is investigating “anticompetitive tactics” by Express Scripts, CVS Caremark, and OptumRx.

The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability last week launched an investigation into how “anticompetitive tactics” by the three largest pharmacy benefit managers—Express Scripts, CVS Caremark, and OptumRx—are driving up healthcare costs and hurting patient care within federal health

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NACHC Hill Day Document Calls for 340B Reform and Offers Guiding Principles, Key Hill Staffer Joins Organization

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“Health centers and their patients cannot afford more [contract pharmacy] restrictions or PBM discriminatory contracting," NACHC says in document urging Congress "to amend the 340B statute to protect access for the true safety-net providers.”

The National Association of Community Health Centers says in a new advocacy document “it’s time to reform the 340B program to recognize the complexities of today’s healthcare system and ensure that true safety-net providers continue to have access to critical

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340B Raised Often During Senate Hearing on Community Health Centers

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) asked a witness during a hearing if she was open to 340B reforms to ensure that 340B savings “are not going to build a chandelier in a hospital et cetera.”

The 340B program—and whether it needs change, protection, or both—came up often today during a U.S. Senate hearing on federal funding of community health centers.

The bulk of health centers’ federal grant funding—about $5.8 billion annually from the U.S. Health

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Health Centers and PhRMA Co-Developing 340B Policies, Hospital Group Says

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NACHC and PhRMA are jointly developing 340B policy proposals for Congress to consider, hospital group 340B Health says.

Associations representing community health centers and brand drug manufacturers are jointly developing 340B policy proposals for Congress to consider, hospital group 340B Health told its members yesterday.

The National Association of Community Health Centers said yesterday that it had no

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Senate Democratic Whip Durbin: 340B Hasn’t Cut Pharma Profits Dramatically

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
340B "hasn’t really cut the profits of the pharmaceutical companies dramatically,” U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said during a visit to a Chicago community health center.

The 340B program “is a really successful program and it hasn’t really cut the profits of the pharmaceutical companies dramatically,” U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Friday during a visit to a Chicago-based community health center.

Durbin is

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340B Report Publisher and CEO: Is Hospital Transparency the Key to a Grand Bargain on 340B?

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Could hospitals' acceptance of 340B reporting requirements help end the fight over limits on 340B contract pharmacy and encroachment on providers’ 340B savings, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky asks.

Could ending the fights over limits on 340B contract pharmacy and encroachment on providers’ 340B savings hinge on hospitals accepting 340B reporting requirements? 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky raises that provocative question in his monthly column for Verity

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Key Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Protect NY Health Centers and Clinics from “Hundreds of Millions” in Lost 340B Savings

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A bill has been introduced in New York State to repeal the April 1 shift of state Medicaid managed care pharmacy benefits to Medicaid fee for service.

The chair of the New York Senate health committee has introduced legislation to repeal the April 1 shift of state Medicaid managed care pharmacy benefits to Medicaid fee for service. The state’s 340B health centers and Ryan White clinics say

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340B Hospital Transparency Bill Dies in Indiana

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Legislation that included 340B hospital reporting requirements failed to advance in the Indiana legislature.

Legislation in Indiana that would have required hospitals to file annual reports disclosing their median reimbursement for 340B-priced drugs, along with numerous other financial disclosures, has failed to advance and has no chance of passage this year.

The wide-ranging hospital

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Iowa Tries Again to End Alleged PBM Bias Against 340B Providers and Pharmacies

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Iowa lawmakers are debating legislation to bar pharmacy benefit managers and insurers from using alleged discriminatory practices against 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies.

Identical bills have been introduced in the Iowa House and Senate to bar pharmacy benefit managers and insurers from using alleged discriminatory practices against 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies, including reimbursing them at a lower rate or imposing

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