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. WBA first invested in Shields in July 2019. Last year, it spent
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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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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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Hospital outpatient pharmacy leaders cite staffing shortages, managing multiple vendors, and navigating insurer red tape—specialty drug referrals and prior authorization requirements, specifically—among top workplace challenges, a new survey finds. As 340B providers continue to grapple with pharmaceutical manufacturer contract pharmacy
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340B pharmacy and health-system services provider CPS Solutions, based in Dublin, Ohio, announced late last week that it has acquired specialty pharmacy services company Trellis Rx, headquartered in Atlanta, Ga.
Both companies have personnel with several decades of 340B experience.
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Pharmacy care services company OptumRx is requiring 340B covered entities to get its consent before they share OptumRx contract pharmacy claims data with drug manufacturers to satisfy manufacturers’ conditions on 340B pricing.
OptumRx—a part of information and health services business
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340B hospitals and health centers say they have a lot of questions about new requests from Express Scripts (ESI) to verify 340B drug reimbursement claims in 10 business days.
Hospital and health center covered entities report getting one or more
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Signify Health, a value-based healthcare platform with a network of over 3,000 physician practices and facilities, has signed an agreement to acquire Caravan Health, a company that helps hospitals and health systems with value-based care arrangements maximize 340B savings, the
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