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
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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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Drug manufacturer Bausch Health last week said on the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration website that its branded NDCs “will once again be available at the 340B ceiling price” through AmeriSourceBergen Corp. (ABC) “for eligible 340B purchases made by
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Half (50 percent) of a sample of health care industry C-suite executives surveyed last month expect the Biden administration to “formally obligate drug manufacturers to offer 340B pricing,” consulting firm Advis reports in its first health care industry leadership survey
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Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) this week appointed veteran business chief executive Rosalind (Roz) Brewer as WBA’s chief executive officer effective March 15. The appointment will make Brewer the sole Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Brewer most recently
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