Community health center leaders have created a new membership organization—Advocates for Community Health (ACH)—to influence federal health care policy and “drive a new vision for the role health centers can and should play in an evolving 21st century health care …
Community Voices for 340B (CV340B), the first non-profit grassroots organization focused on promoting the importance of the 340B program, kicked off the first of series of regional educational webinars scheduled last week. The event, which was focused on the Northeast …
Activists aligned with the powerful grassroots group AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) marched yesterday in front of drug manufacturer AstraZeneca’s Wilmington, Del., headquarters building to protest the company’s decision effective Oct. 1 to stop offering 340B pricing on all of its …
HRSA’s confirmation this week that it is permanently eliminating a significant barrier to access to 340B pricing in the hospital clinic setting is being embraced by veteran 340B health care attorneys. We asked experts for their take on the government’s …
The 340B Coalition’s annual summer conference historically is the year’s biggest get-together for 340B stakeholders. It draws over 1,700 attendees. Registration for this year’s summer conference, to be held July 20-22 in Washington, D.C., opened yesterday—smack in the middle of …
States should do more to help hospitals and other providers enroll in the 340B program as a way to lower drug prices, a liberal think tank with ties to the Obama and Clinton administrations says in a new report. …
On Friday, the nonpartisan Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) made headlines (see story below) when its staff said it could find no link between evidence of 340B hospitals’ higher spending on drugs to treat prostate and lung cancer and incentives …