Category: Legislative

The full House Energy & Commerce Committee as of late this morning had not yet said when it will markup 340B hospital reporting legislation that split its health subcommittee in two along party lines yesterday. The committee’s Republican majority reportedly

The U.S. House Energy & Commerce health subcommittee tomorrow will markup a bill by Vice Chair Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.) to impose significant annual reporting requirements on 340B disproportionate share hospitals “and any other covered entity” that the U.S. Secretary of

U.S. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) did not seek to amend a PBM oversight bill that is being marked up today to require 340B hospitals and possibly other covered entities to be more transparent about how they use money saved or

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.

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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