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
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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.
The coalition,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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340B covered entities say they are deeply concerned about pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts’ (ESI) requirements, effective Monday, governing what pharmacies in the PBM’s network must do when they identify that a previously submitted claim is 340B-eligible. Last night, ESI told
…Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts late yesterday began notifying 340B covered entities by email that, effective March 1, it “will require a new identification method for submitting and identifying 340B eligible claims.”
A health system 340B program manager said this
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