Category: Other Industry

340B Report Bolsters Editorial Staff with Two Key Hires

In Other IndustryJuly 5, 2023398 Views

Rich Daly (left) is 340B Report's new editor in chief and Will Newton is its new Washington correspondent. Tom Mirga, top editor since its founding in 2020, is now editor at large.

340B Report, the indispensable source for news and intelligence on the 340B drug pricing program, has added two team members with deep health care journalism experience. Rich Daly, a veteran healthcare business and policy journalist, is 340B Report’s new editor

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Get PBMs to Squeeze 340B Drugs Harder, “Playbook” Advises Employers

In Other Industry, PBMs and Payers, Research/ReportsJune 27, 2023739 Views

Tom Mirga

A new "playbook" for business-sponsored health plans advises them to press PBMs to do more to ensure that health care purchasers get the benefits of 340B drug discounts.

A new “playbook” for employers on getting the upper hand with pharmacy benefit managers says PBM handling of 340B drugs is a top 10 concern for business-sponsored health plans.

Released yesterday by the Washington, D.C., based National Alliance of Healthcare

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Sean Dickson, Known for 340B Research, Takes Senior Post at Health Insurance Association

In Other IndustryMarch 23, 2023211 Views

Tom Mirga

Sean Dickson, a drug policy expert who has published frequently cited research on 340B, has gone to work for the health insurance industry.

Sean Dickson, a drug policy expert who has published frequently cited research on the 340B program and advised both health care providers and drug manufacturers on 340B compliance, has gone to work for the health insurance industry.

Dickson, most recently

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340B Market News: Avita Acquires PrEP-by-Telehealth Provider Q Care Plus

In Other IndustryJanuary 18, 2023318 Views

Tom Mirga

340B contract pharmacy and third-party administration services company Avita has acquired Q Care Plus, a business that helps patients access PrEP by telehealth.

Avita, a leading provider of 340B contract pharmacy and third-party administration services geared toward HIV and LGBTQ+ communities, has acquired Q Care Plus, a business that helps patients access HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication by telehealth.

PMQ Investors LLC, Avita’s

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Kalderos Announces New 340B Drug Claims Verification Tool

In Other Industry, Pharma IndustryOctober 20, 2022425 Views

Tom Mirga

Kalderos has replaced its Review 340B claims verification tool with a new one named Discount Hub.

Pharmaceutical manufacturer contractor Kalderos has replaced Review, its 340B drug claims verification tool, with a new one named Discount Hub.

Chicago-based Kalderos announced the change in an Aug. 31 blog post and an Oct. 12 news release. It said Discount Hub

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340B Pharmacy Services Company Avita Expands into Clinician and Support Staff Services

In Other IndustryOctober 12, 2022420 Views

Tom Mirga

Maintaining regular access to providers is a challenge for many 340B grantee entities and can make it hard for them to leverage the 340B program, Avita CEO Michael Yount says.

Avita, a leading provider of 340B contract pharmacy and third-party administration services geared toward HIV and LGBTQ+ communities, is expanding into medical practice staffing and management.

Avita announced Oct. 5 that it has acquired HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+, and primary care health

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Walgreens Takes Full Ownership of 340B Specialty Pharmacy Company Shields Health Solutions

In Other Industry, Pharma IndustrySeptember 27, 2022595 Views

Ted Slafsky

Screenshot of Business Wire announcement Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. to gain ownership of Shields Health Solutions

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) announced September 20th that it is acquiring the remaining 30% stake in 340B specialty pharmacy company Shields Health Solutions that it did not already own.

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) announced September 20^th that it is acquiring the remaining 30% stake in 340B specialty pharmacy company Shields Health Solutions that it did not already own. WBA first invested in Shields in July 2019. Last year, it spent

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Health Centers Criticize Kaiser Health News Story About Profit Margins

In Other Industry, Research/ReportsAugust 16, 2022523 Views

Tom Mirga

Tony Megna outside a Genesis Health Care facility

Tony Megna, CEO of one of the profitable health centers investigated by Kaiser Health News, said, "“We ask, why is there an implication that surplus funds come at the expense of our mission?" | Phil Galewitz / KHN

Community health center advocates have strongly criticized a new Kaiser Health News (KHN) investigative report that found that some health centers have large profit margins.

The article found that nine of the nation’s nearly 1,400 health centers reported profit margins

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation Calls PhRMA’s Washington Post 340B Ad “Hypocritical Slander”

In Other Industry, Pharma IndustryJuly 28, 2022321 Views

Laura Gilcrest

AIDS Healthcare Foundation recently refreshed its let340b.org website, roughly the same time as PhRMA ran a full-page ad in The Washington Post saying the 340B program doesn't help patients.

The brand drug industry’s recent full-page ad in The Washington Post saying the 340B program helps big hospitals and chain pharmacies but not patients is “hypocritical slander,” AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein said last week.

“PhRMA calling for drug price

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Part 2: “There Have Been Challenges Up and Down the Supply Chain”: The View from the Field and Responses from Stakeholders

In Closer Look, Other Industry, Pharma Industry, RegulatoryJuly 28, 2022807 Views

Sarah True

Beth Peery is the 340B Coordinator at Memorial Health Systems in Seward, Nebraska, a town of 6,000 in the southeastern part of the state.

A Special Report From 340B Report:
A two-part series on the growing frustrations safety net providers face in restoring access to 340B pricing in the contract pharmacy setting. Part 1 provides important background on the challenges that covered entities face

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