Category: Legislative

Drug Industry Advocates Say 340B Providers Would be Unintended Beneficiaries in Effort to Kill Trump Proposed Medicaid Pricing Proposal

May 8, 2025 Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

A California think tank and drug industry advocates penned new op-eds warning against the possible 340B impacts of President Donald Trump's Medicaid drug pricing proposal.

A California think tank, and an influential drug industry trade group that funds it, are raising concerns that President Donald [...]

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Indiana Enacts 340B Hospital Reporting Law as Colorado Lawmakers Send Combined Contract Pharmacy Access-Provider Reporting Bill to Governor

May 7, 2025 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Indiana enacted a 340B hospital reporting law on May 6, while Colorado lawmakers sent a combined reporting bill with 340B contract pharmacy protections to their state governor.

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun (R) late yesterday signed into law a sweeping 340B hospital reporting bill on the same day [...]

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Tennessee Enacts Law to Block Future Drugmaker 340B Restrictions Placed After July 2025

May 6, 2025 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) on May 5 signed into law a bill to block drugmaker contract pharmacy restrictions placed after July.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) late yesterday signed into law a bill that would prohibit drugmakers from placing new 340B [...]

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Colorado Lawmakers Advance Dueling 340B Contract Pharmacy Access Bills with Different Hospital Restrictions

May 6, 2025 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Two separate 340B bills are advancing through the Colorado House after both passed the state Senate in late March.

Colorado state lawmakers are advancing two competing 340B contract pharmacy access bills with significantly different reporting rules and added restrictions [...]

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Hawley, Welch Unveil Bipartisan Senate Bill to Lower Prescription Drug Prices

May 6, 2025 Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

U.S. Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced the Fair Prescription Drug Prices for Americans Act on Monday.

A new bipartisan U.S. Senate proposal, backed by a key lawmaker involved in 340B policy, aims to lower the cost [...]

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Trump’s FY 2026 Budget Blueprint Includes $33 Billion in HHS Cuts, No Details on 340B Plans

May 2, 2025 Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

The White House’s Discretionary Budget Request released Friday proposes nearly $94 billion in base discretionary HHS funding—a $33.3 billion cut.

President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget blueprint released Friday calls for major cuts and shakeups at the U.S. Department [...]

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Hawaii Legislature Passes Amended 340B Contract Pharmacy Access Bill with Limited Reporting Requirements

May 1, 2025 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

On April 30, both chambers of the Hawaii legislature passed an amended 340B contract pharmacy access bill.

Both chambers of the Hawaii Legislature yesterday approved a 340B contract pharmacy access bill with provider reporting requirements following weeks [...]

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California, Texas, Oklahoma Advance 340B Contract Pharmacy Access Bills with Key Amendments

April 29, 2025 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

California lawmakers recently advanced a 340B contract pharmacy access bill through committee but amended it to exclude 340B hospitals.

State legislators in California, Texas and Oklahoma have recently advanced 340B contract pharmacy access bills with amendments that in some [...]

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Stakeholders React to HELP Committee Chair Cassidy’s 340B Probe Findings, Reform Recommendations

April 24, 2025 Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

340B stakeholders offered mixed responses to the findings of U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy's (R-La.) investigation into the 340B program.

340B hospitals, contract pharmacies, health center advocates and the drug industry offered mixed responses Thursday on the long-awaited findings and [...]

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Senate HELP Committee Chair Cassidy Calls for Federal 340B Reforms, Releases Findings of Yearslong Congressional Probe

April 24, 2025 Shannon Young, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) laid out a series of potential policies Congress could adopt to “bring much-needed reform to the 340B program” in a 195-page report, which summarized the findings of the investigation he launched in 2023—as the HELP panel’s top Republican—into how certain hospitals, health centers, chain pharmacies and drugmakers operate their 340B programs.

The leader of a key U.S. Senate Committee tasked with overseeing the 340B program called Thursday for Congress to improve [...]

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