BREAKING: HHS Secretary-Designate Becerra Pledges to “Build On” 340B Contract Pharmacy Advisory Opinion

HHS Secretary-designate Xavier Becerra called 340B "an indispensable program" during a courtesy hearing before the Senate HELP Committee today.

President Biden’s pick to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary expressed his support for the recent HHS advisory opinion on contract pharmacy during questions today before a key congressional committee.

California Attorney General Xavier

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HHS-Designate Becerra May Face 340B Questions Today During First Nomination Hearing

HHS-Secretary designate Xavier Becerra could face questions about the 340B program today during his first of two Senate nomination hearings this week.

The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee this morning is holding the first of two Senate committee hearings this week on President Biden’s nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to serve as U.S. Health and Human

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Ex-Energy & Commerce GOP Chair Walden Launches Lobbying Firm

Former House E&C GOP Chair Greg Walden (Ore.) has set up a public policy and political strategy firm in partnership with one of Washington’s top lobbying firms. | C-SPAN

Greg Walden (Ore.), the former Republican chair of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee, yesterday launched his own public policy and political strategy firm in partnership with one of Washington’s top lobbying firms.

Walden and the Alpine Group

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CBO Says Lifting Medicaid Drug Rebate Cap Would Save $16 Billion

Eliminating the cap on rebates that drug manufacturers pay to Medicaid would save Medicaid about $16 billion over 10 years, the CBO estimates.

The U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that eliminating the limit on rebates that drug manufacturers pay to Medicaid, now capped at 100 percent of a drug’s average manufacturer price (AMP), “would reduce direct spending in Medicaid by $15.9 billion

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Senate Hearings Next Week on Becerra’s Nomination to Head HHS

The Senate Finance and HELP committees will hold hearings next week on Xavier Becerra's nomination to serve as HHS Secretary.

Two U.S. Senate committees have scheduled hearings next week on President Biden’s nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be the next U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. In December, Becerra helped spearhead a bipartisan letter of

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Legislation Lifting Maximum Cap on Medicaid Rebates Advances

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday passed pandemic-relief legislation with language that could cause pharmaceutical manufacturers to owe states Medicaid drug rebates worth more than a drug’s average manufacturer price (AMP). It could also result in additional

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PolitiFact Calls Senate Candidate’s 340B Insulin Claim “Mostly False”

PolitiFact rated U.S. Senate candidate Mark Walker’s tweet that President Biden “is raising the prices of insulin and Epi-Pens on those with high costs and the uninsured” as being Mostly False.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism website that fact-checks politicians’ claims has waded into the controversy over whether President Biden raised insulin prices by freezing a 340B-related Trump administration regulation.

On Feb. 11, the Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact site rated U.S. Senate

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Indiana House to Vote on Stopping PBMs From Squeezing 340B Entities

An Indiana House committee last week unanimously passed a bill to stop pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from discriminating against 340B covered entities.

State Rep. Edward Clere’s (R) bill, HR 1393, is now before the full House. There is no

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House Set To Act on Bill that Could Result in Higher Medicaid Rebates and 340B Discounts

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee is scheduled to mark up COVID-19 relief legislation today with language that could cause pharmaceutical manufacturers to owe states Medicaid drug rebates worth more than a drug’s average manufacturer price (AMP).

The language

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Health Centers to Begin Receiving COVID-19 Vaccines Directly

The National Association of Community Health Centers said its members have already begun vaccinating priority populations against the SARS-Cov-2 virus that causes COVID-19. | Shutterstock

As soon as Monday, some federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) will be able to start ordering COVID-19 vaccines for administration to patients, under a “community health centers vaccination program” announced Tuesday by the Biden administration.

The administration said in

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