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Amgen Expands 340B Contract Pharmacy Limits

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Amgen today announced a major expansion of its conditions on 340B pricing when hospitals use contract pharmacies.

Biopharmaceutical manufacturer Amgen this afternoon significantly expanded its conditions on 340B pricing when hospitals use contract pharmacies.

Johnson & Johnson announced a similar expansion of its 340B contract pharmacy limits last month. Hospital groups slammed J&J’s new restrictions.

Amgen’s

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Some Provider Groups Slam NACHC and PhRMA’s 340B Plan, Others Say They’re Studying it

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Lt. Cmdr. Emeka Egwim (left), Director of HRSA's Office of Pharmacy Affairs, spoke this morning on 340B Day at NACHC's annual Policy & Issues Forum in Washington, D.C.

A large HIV/AIDS health care group, a Democratic 340B provider ally in Congress, and three national hospital groups lambasted community health centers and drug makers’ historic announcement yesterday that they are working together to remake the 340B program. Other 340B

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340B Raised Often During Senate Hearing on Community Health Centers

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) asked a witness during a hearing if she was open to 340B reforms to ensure that 340B savings “are not going to build a chandelier in a hospital et cetera.”

The 340B program—and whether it needs change, protection, or both—came up often today during a U.S. Senate hearing on federal funding of community health centers.

The bulk of health centers’ federal grant funding—about $5.8 billion annually from the U.S. Health

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Federal Appellate Judges Ask Lawyers, What is a Bona Fide Offer of 340B Pricing?

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Judge Gregory Katsas is on a three-judge panel that will decide the legality of HRSA's 340B program violation letters to Novartis and United Therapeutics. He is shown here speaking at an October 2021 symposium on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for whom he clerked. | C-SPAN

Two of three judges on a federal appeals court panel yesterday repeatedly asked lawyers during a highly anticipated hearing in Washington, D.C., what standard the court should use to decide whether drug manufacturers’ 340B contract pharmacy conditions are legal.

The

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Feds Tell Court They Oppose Health Center’s Effort to Sink 340B Patient Definition

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Lawyers for HHS and HRSA told a federal district court yesterday the agencies oppose a health center’s efforts to have the longstanding 340B program definition of patient declared illegal.

Lawyers for federal healthcare officials told a federal district court yesterday that the government opposes a South Carolina health center’s efforts to have the longstanding 340B program definition of patient declared illegal.

In papers filed Sept. 22 in federal district court

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Becerra Says Legislation Is Needed to Strengthen HHS Authority to Address 340B Contract Pharmacy Pricing Denials

Xavier Becerra speaking to the press
Congress needs to give HHS more more regulatory power and money if its wants the department to do more about drug companies that curtail the use of 340B drugs in contract pharmacies, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra told House members in a Sept. 1 letter.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told members of Congress on Thursday that his department is doing all it can with the tools it has to address drug manufacturers’ denials of 340B pricing involving contract pharmacies.

If lawmakers

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Boehringer Ingelheim Expands its 340B Drug Pricing Restrictions

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Boehringer Ingelheim said on Friday that health centers will be subject to its limits on 340B pricing involving contract pharmacies starting Sept. 1.

Drug manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) said on Friday that health centers will be subject to its limits on 340B pricing involving contract pharmacies starting Sept. 1. The restrictions previously applied to hospitals only. “At this time, for all other federal

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New York State Sues CVS for Allegedly Forcing 340B Entities to Use Third Party Administrator Wellpartner

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New York State says in a lawsuit that CVS Health illegally forces 340B covered entities to use CVS's 340B TPA Wellpartner. CVS says the the state's claims lack merit and that it will defend itself.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James today sued CVS Health for allegedly forcing the state’s 340B covered entities to use CVS’s 340B third party administrator Wellpartner as a condition for letting the entities contract with CVS retail and specialty

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181 House Members Prod HHS to Start Fining Drug Makers for “Unlawful” 340B Overcharges Involving Contract Pharmacies

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181 bipartisan U.S. House members on Friday urged HHS to quickly fine all drug manufacturers that deny 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.

One hundred eighty-one U.S. House members—144 Democrats and 37 Republicans—urged the Biden administration on Friday to quickly impose civil monetary penalties against all drug manufacturers that restrict access to 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.

“Manufacturers have received

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NACHC Asks HHS to Swiftly Punish Drug Makers for 340B Pricing Denials Involving Contract Pharmacies

A letter from NACHC to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra
NACHC urged HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to hold drug manufacturers accountable for restricting shipments of 340B drugs to contract pharmacies.

The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) strongly urged the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra yesterday “to swiftly impose” fines on drug manufacturers that restrict shipments of 340B-purchased drugs to contract pharmacies and “hold manufacturers accountable

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