Category: Pharma Industry

Judge Dismisses Health System’s Penny Pricing Coordination Lawsuit Against Drugmakers

March 26, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

A federal district judge has dismissed Calif.-based Adventist West's lawsuit against four drug manufacturers.

A federal judge recently dismissed a large California health system’s whistleblower case against four pharmaceutical companies for alleged fraudulent 340B [...]

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Two More Drugmakers End 340B Contract Pharmacy Restrictions in Arkansas After Appeals Court Decision

March 21, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

EMD Serono lifted 340B contract pharmacy restrictions in Arkansas in response to a state law. Shortly after, Sanofi also updated its policy in the state.

Drugmakers EMD Serono and Sanofi will lift 340B contract pharmacy restrictions in Arkansas after a federal appeals court upheld a [...]

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Two More Drug Companies Restore 340B Contract Pharmacy Access in Arkansas After Court Decision; Enforcement Action Imminent Against Others

March 19, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

As AID prepares to initiate enforcement of Arkansas' 340B contract pharmacy law, two more drugmakers announced they would exempt state providers from their contract pharmacy policies.

Months after nine drug manufacturers restored 340B contract pharmacy access in Arkansas, two more companies have announced they will exempt [...]

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Two Reports Critique Financial Dynamics of 340B Program

March 19, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Recent reports from 46brooklyn, a nonprofit think tank, and IQVIA, a drug industry analytics firm, criticized the financial dynamics of 340B.

The 340B program may increase medication costs for self-insured employers, a recent study from a pharmaceutical industry outsourcing and analytics [...]

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Mississippi House Passes 340B Contract Pharmacy Bill, Two Days After Senate Passes Similar Bill

March 15, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

The Mississippi House passed, 83-31, a bill that would prohibit drugmaker 340B contract pharmacy restrictions in the state.

The Mississippi state house yesterday passed a bill to bar drugmaker 340B contract pharmacy restrictions and certain 340B-specific pharmacy benefit [...]

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Imminent Enforcement of Arkansas 340B Contract Pharmacy Law to Follow Court Decision Upholding It

March 14, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

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The Arkansas Insurance Department will imminently enforce a state 340B contract pharmacy law following a key federal appeals court decision.

After a federal appeals court recently upheld Arkansas’ 340B contract pharmacy law, the state will initiate enforcement against 14 drugmakers [...]

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340B Small Share of Drugmaker Revenue, Says Hospital-Backed Report

March 14, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

340B drug discounts only amounted to a small percentage of total drugmaker revenue, a hospital-funded study found.

Despite the increase in the amount of 340B program drug discounts, those only amounted to 3.1% of global and 7% [...]

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In Key Decision That Could Have National Implications, Federal Appellate Court Upholds Arkansas 340B Contract Pharmacy Protection Law

March 12, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Circuit Judge Michael Melloy of the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote the opinion that upheld Arkansas' state 340B contract pharmacy law.

A federal appeals court today upheld an Arkansas law that prohibits drug manufacturer 340B contract pharmacy restrictions in the state. [...]

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Genentech Is Thirty-first Company to Implement Contract Pharmacy Restrictions

March 12, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

Genentech gave advanced notice to 340B hospitals that the drugmaker would implement 340B contract pharmacy restrictions on May 1.

Drugmaker Genentech has given some 340B hospitals advance notice of its plan to implement contract pharmacy restrictions. The biotech giant, [...]

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Massachusetts to Bar Managed Medicaid Payments for GLP-1 Drugs for 340B Patients

March 7, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

MassHealth, the Massachusetts Medicaid program, will soon bar managed care plans for paying for certain high-cost obesity drugs using 340B.

Massachusetts will soon change its Medicaid payment policy to bar managed care plans from paying for seven high-cost, anti-obesity medications [...]

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Judge Dismisses Health System’s Penny Pricing Coordination Lawsuit Against Drugmakers

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Two More Drugmakers End 340B Contract Pharmacy Restrictions in Arkansas After Appeals Court Decision

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Two More Drug Companies Restore 340B Contract Pharmacy Access in Arkansas After Court Decision; Enforcement Action Imminent Against Others

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Two Reports Critique Financial Dynamics of 340B Program

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