RWC-340B Slams Gilead-funded Study of 340B Grantee Entities

Shannon Burger
“We once thought of Gilead as our partner in the fight to end HIV/AIDS,” RWC-340B President Shannon Burger said about Gilead's sponsorship of a study that questions whether HIV/AIDS clinic patients benefit from the clinics' participation in 340B.

Ryan White Clinics for 340B Access yesterday criticized drug manufacturer Gilead Sciences for sponsoring a study that said it is unclear if patients of Ryan White clinics and other 340B grantee covered entities benefit from the drug margin these entities

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JAMA Study Says, When it Comes to Insulin, Pharma’s Gross-to-Net Problem Is Mostly its Own Doing

Gross-to-net bubble for insulin
Insulin product manufacturers' take from sales is diminished more by voluntary commercial discounts than by 340B ceiling prices and other mandatory discounts, a new study found.

Drug manufacturers often observe that a growing share of their take from gross sales goes to middlemen and others in the form of rebates and discounts. A term has been coined to describe the phenomenon: the gross-to-net bubble (the difference

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Bausch Health Tightens its Conditions on 340B Pricing to All Covered Entities

Bausch Health
Bausch Health today tightened its conditions on 340B pricing involving deliveries to contract pharmacies.

Bausch Health this morning updated its conditions on 340B pricing involving deliveries to contract pharmacies to all covered entities. It is the fifth drug maker this month to either impose such conditions for the first time (Organon and

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Exelixis Extends 340B Price Conditions to Hospitals’ Wholly Owned Contract Pharmacies

Exelixis
Exelixis extended its conditions on 340B pricing to contract pharmacies that are wholly owned or under common ownership with a hospital covered entity.

Biopharmaceutical manufacturer Exelixis said today it is extending its conditions on 340B pricing to contract pharmacies that are wholly owned or under common ownership with a hospital covered entity. The change is effective June 26.

Exelixis announced the change in

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Teva Is the 23rd Drug Maker to Impose Limits on 340B Contract Pharmacies

Teva
The final HRSA manufacturer 340B program audit conducted in fiscal year 2023 had no adverse findings for Teva Pharmaceuticals.

Drug manufacturer Teva today became the 23rd drug manufacturer to impose conditions on 340B pricing involving delivery to contract pharmacies.

Covered entities reported getting Teva’s notice by email around 1:00 p.m. Eastern. It said effective July 5:

  • Any
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Merck Sues to Stop Medicare Drug Price Negotiation

Merck
Merck has sued to stop the federal government from negotiating prices for certain high expenditure, single source Medicare Part B or Part D drugs

Federal Medicare drug price negotiation “is tantamount to extortion” and must be struck down as unconstitutional, drug manufacturer Merck told a federal district court yesterday.

Merck on Tuesday became the first drug maker to sue to stop the federal government

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HRSA Posts Four Manufacturer Notices to 340B Entities

Humalog
Lilly is providing refunds for 340B overcharges during Q1 2020 on Humalog and Trulicity.

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration yesterday posted notices of refunds for 340B overcharges from drug manufacturers Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Neurocrine and a notice from Amneal about product NDC changes.

Lilly

Lilly’s May 30 notice covers purchases

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ASAP 340B and AHA Outreach Documents Are Polar Opposites on 340B DSH Hospitals

ASAP 340B
A new ASAP 340B document describes how its position on the 340B patient definition would play out under six hypothetical scenarios.

ASAP 340B, the group that drug manufacturers and community health centers formed to advance a joint 340B reform agenda, recently released a two-page explainer on how their plan would change the 340B patient definition. Under it, fewer drugs prescribed at

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Merck to Pay Refunds for 340B Overcharges in Q1 and Q2 2020

Cubicin
Merck is providing refunds for 340B overcharges on NDCs of its antibiotic Cubicin and other drugs during the first two quarters of 2020.

Drug manufacturer Merck is paying refunds for overcharges on 340B drugs purchased during the first two quarters of 2020.

Merck recently asked the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to post notices about its 340B ceiling price recalculations on the

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Organon Is the 22nd Drug Maker to Impose Limits on 340B Contract Pharmacy

Organon
Organon today became the 22nd drug maker to announce conditions on 340B pricing involving drug shipments to contract pharmacies. They apply to hospitals only, grantee covered entities are exempt.

Drug manufacturer Organon, the Merck spinoff with a focus on women’s health, today became the 22nd drug maker to impose conditions on 340B pricing involving delivery to contract pharmacies.

Covered entities began receiving an email from Organon around 3:00 p.m.

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