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 …
A Bay Area health care tech firm is convening a work group to try to solve the problem of duplicate 340B discounts and Medicaid rebates on the same drugs. …
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Twenty four large health systems with hospitals in the 340B program yesterday sent U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra eight recommendations “to stabilize this program for the long-term” that he could implement without involving Congress. …
Pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts (ESI) told a hospital group and an HIV/AIDS clinic in recent days that it has “already granted numerous pharmacies extensions” to its controversial new 340B claims identification requirement that went into effect March 1. …
Groups representing 340B health care providers have asked pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts (ESI) to stop making 340B providers and their contract pharmacies retrospectively submit and flag 340B claims in a way that has never been done before, and that …
Online retailer Amazon announced yesterday that it began offering companies in Washington state access to its Amazon Care telehealth and home-visit primary and urgent health care services, which include “prescription delivery right to a patient’s door.”
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Legislation addressing pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts’ (ESI) new claims identification requirement for 340B drugs could be introduced in Congress soon, advisers to 340B covered entities said yesterday. …
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Health insurance company Humana has begun sending pharmacy provider agreements for 2022 to 340B-participating pharmacies, with claims-identification and data-reporting conditions that some 340B providers say are unsettling. They say the agreements are to be signed and returned within 30 days …
The Biden administration’s embrace of the federal government’s traditional stance on the enforceability of program guidance—which the Trump administration rejected—may lead to stronger enforcement of 340B program guidance and possibly even the issuance of new 340B guidelines, 340B Report Publisher …