Category: Legislative

Democratic lawmakers have come to an agreement for placing a limited drug price negotiation plan for the Medicare program into the Build Back Better bill, but how it will impact the 340B program remains to be seen.

“By empowering Medicare

A GOP U.S. Senator who has been active on 340B matters for decades last week asked President Biden’s pick to be the U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s top lawyer if HHS could be doing more to protect the 340B

Efforts to pass federal drug pricing legislation, pronounced dead by many last week, arose in time for Halloween.

Liberal and conservative congressional Democrats and the White House reportedly are still trying to strike a deal centered on letting Medicare negotiate

Drug manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) sued the federal government this afternoon in federal district court in Washington, D.C., in defense of its policy of denying hospitals 340B drug discounts when hospitals use contract pharmacies.

BI is the seventh manufacturer to

U.S. Senate appropriators say they’re happy with the federal government’s response to six drug manufacturers’ denials of 340B drug discounts involving contract pharmacy.

The Democratic-controlled Senate Appropriations Committee praised the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for its actions

If Congress changes hands during next year’s mid-term elections, we can expect the 340B program to be back under the spotlight with a renewed effort to place significant restrictions on the program, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky writes

Pharmaceutical industry vendor Kalderos has asked a federal court to vacate a federal health agency’s policy prohibiting drug manufacturers from conditioning 340B drug discounts on covered entities’ submission of drug claims data.

Kalderos has created a service called 340B

Montana’s at-large Republican U.S. congressman has introduced a bill to impose a host of new conditions on hospital participation in the 340B drug discount program.

First-term U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) isn’t a member of the House Energy & Commerce

Half of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has asked Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to end the nearly 30% cut in Medicare Part B drug payments to 340B hospitals.

Reps. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) and Lisa