Kalderos Hires Veteran Health Care Tech Company Leader Brent Dover to be its New CEO

Kalderos today announced the appointment of Brent Dover as CEO. He succeeds company founder Jeremy Docken, who will remain on the board and who's new title is chief strategy officer.

Drug industry technology company Kalderos, which has struggled to launch its 340B Pay service to let drug companies provide 340B pricing as a post-purchase rebate instead of as an up-front discount, has a new chief executive officer.

The company announced

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Vertex Providing Refunds for 340B Overcharges on Cystic Fibrosis Drug Trikafta

Vertex Pharmaceuticals is giving 340B covered entities refunds for overcharges from Q2 2021 through Q4 2021 on its cystic fibrosis combination medicine Trikafta.

Biopharmaceutical company Vertex is providing refunds to 340B covered entities for overcharges on its cystic fibrosis (CF) combination medicine Trikafta for the period from Q2 2021 through Q4 2021, according to a public notice on the U.S. Health Resources and

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News Alert: Pfizer Becomes the 13th Drug Maker to Limit 340B Contract Pharmacies

Pfizer is the 13th drug manufacturer to impose conditions on 340B sales of prescription drugs involving contract pharmacies.

UPDATE Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, 3:25 p.m.—The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) said this afternoon it is reviewing Pfizer’s policy and will evaluate next steps as needed.

Pfizer today became the 13th drug manufacturer to impose conditions on

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Exclusive: Nearly Five Years Before BMS Voluntarily Opened Up Myeloma Drug Network, HRSA Told Celgene it “Must Ensure” Entities Could Buy at 340B Price

Bristol Myers Squibb said Jan. 14 it voluntarily will let 340B covered entities buy Revlimid, Pomalyst, and Thalomid at the 340B ceiling price through specialty pharmacies in the company's limited distribution network for the drugs. BMS acquired the drugs in 2019 when it acquired Celgene. In 2017, HRSA told Celgene it had to ensure that 340B entities could buy the drugs at 340B price through the same limited distribution network.

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) told drug manufacturer Celgene nearly five years ago the company “must ensure” that covered entities could buy its cancer drugs Revlimid, Pomalyst, and Thalomid at the 340B ceiling price through Celgene’s limited

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Novo Nordisk Will Let Hospitals Designate Two 340B Contract Pharmacies—one Retail and one Specialty

Novo Nordisk has amended its policy restrictions on 340B drug sales to hospitals. Starting Feb. 1, it will let those lacking wholly owned contract pharmacies to designate two contract pharmacy locations—one retail and one specialty.

Drug manufacturer Novo Nordisk has amended its policy restrictions on 340B drug sales to hospitals involving shipments to contract pharmacies.

In a notice to covered entities dated Jan. 24, Novo Nordisk said if a 340B hospital covered entity “does

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In a Relief to Rural Providers, Gilead Is Waiving 340B Orphan Drug Exclusion for its COVID-19 Drug Veklury

Gilead says it will voluntarily extend 340B pricing to critical access hospitals, sole community hospitals, and rural referral centers on Veklury (remdesivir), its injectable antiviral treatment for COVID-19.

Drug manufacturer Gilead will voluntarily extend 340B pricing to critical access hospitals, sole community hospitals, and rural referral centers on Veklury (remdesivir), its injectable antiviral treatment for COVID-19, the company said late Tuesday.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Hospitals Taking Heavy Losses Due to Drug Company Limits on 340B Pricing, Survey Says

340B Health says a new survey of its members shows 340B hospitals “are losing significant resources” due to drug companies’ conditions on 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies.

UPDATE Friday, Jan. 28, 2022—This story was updated to include comments by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA.)

340B hospitals “are losing significant resources” due to drug companies’ conditions on 340B pricing when covered entities use contract pharmacies, according

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FDA OKs COVID-19 Drug Veklury (remdesivir) for Outpatients, Opening the Way for 340B Pricing

Hospitals are expressing relief over being able to administer the COVID-19 drug Veklury in outpatient settings and to be able to buy it finally at a 340B price.

Hospitals caring for patients infected with the highly infectious omicron variant of COVID-19 say they are very relieved to be getting 340B pricing finally on Gilead’s injectable antiviral medication Veklury (remdesivir).

On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Three Drug Makers, Including Two with Contract Pharmacy Restrictions, Post 340B Refund Notices

Bristol Myers Squibb, Novo Nordisk, and Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals notified 340B covered entities this week about refunds for charges above 340B ceiling prices.

Three drug manufacturers—including two that have imposed conditions on 340B contract pharmacy—posted public notices this week to 340B covered entities about refunds for charges above 340B ceiling prices.

Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) and Novo Nordisk’s notices came to light yesterday

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Groups and Individual Health Care Providers Grapple with BMS’s New 340B Contract Pharmacy Policy

Individual 340B covered entities are deciding how to respond to the multi-point 340B contract pharmacy policy that Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) released last Friday.

Groups that represent 340B hospitals yesterday slammed the multi-point 340B contract pharmacy policy that Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) released last Friday.

Representatives of grantee covered entities, which BMS exempted from its contract pharmacy restrictions involving most of its products, overwhelmingly

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