Prospects for passage of Democratic drug pricing legislation as part of the Build Back Better (BBB) Act dimmed again last week with news that Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) had a stroke on Jan 27.
Lujan’s chief of staff
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The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) told Republican members of Congress last week that “congressional action may be the only solution” to drug makers’ “aggressive actions to limit patients’ access to affordable medications at contract pharmacies.”
NACHC’s
340B covered entity allies in the U.S. House are booking an hour of floor speeches by members lauding the drug discount program next week Tuesday after all legislative business is finished.
Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) are
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Hospital Group Leader Says “We’re Prepared to Go” in Direction of Federal 340B Contract Pharmacy Legislation
For the first time since the 340B contract pharmacy impasse started over a year and a half ago, the leader of an influential hospital group said publicly today her association is prepared to move in the direction of a federal
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340B Report Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Ted Slafsky says in his latest column for Omnicell’s blog that “all signs foretell a Republican takeover of the House and a very good possibility of the GOP assuming control of the closely
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Health care services and group purchasing company Vizient asked Congress on Monday to pass the U.S. Senate version of bipartisan legislation to protect hospitals from losing their 340B eligibility due to changes in patient and payer mix caused by the
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Three Democratic and three Republican U.S. House members asked the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) on Friday “to move quickly to enforce the law and begin assessing civil monetary penalties on manufacturers that have denied 340B pricing to
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) yesterday asked U.S. House and Senate party leaders to ensure that a must-pass spending bill next month protects hospitals from losing their 340B eligibility due to changes in patient and payer mix caused by the
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U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said this week that new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) findings on brand drug price increases “drive home the urgent need to pass robust drug pricing reforms.”
“The average net price for brand-name
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Bills have been filed in at least five state legislatures to protect 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies from discrimination by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
Sixteen states have enacted one or more such laws since 2019, according to
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