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The American Hospital Association (AHA) told pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts (ESI) this week its new 340B claims identification requirement for covered entities and their contract pharmacies “is a major overreach” and should be withdrawn immediately.

An ESI spokesperson was

The nation’s largest health insurer is instituting a commercial claims reimbursement policy that that is raising alarms among 340B hospitals. 

Effective Aug. 1, UnitedHealthcare said it will no longer cover evaluation and management (E/M) claims at hospital-owned outpatient facilities

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 21^st 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.

San Francisco-based Chronicled said in a statement issued on Tuesday

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.

The coalition,

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.

ESI

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.”

Until now, Amazon

Correction, Tuesday March 16, 4:00 p.m. EDT—Earlier today, we reported that during a March 16 webinar, advisers to 340B covered entities said that U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) had written to pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts (ESI) about its new