Category: Providers

340B Recertification for Hospitals Starts Aug. 14

July 27, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

HRSA announced this year's 340B eligibility recertification period for hospitals will start Aug. 14 and end Sept. 11.

This year’s 340B eligibility recertification period for hospitals will start Aug. 14 and end Sept. 11, the U.S. Health Resources [...]

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Large Drug Maker, Big Health System, and Influential Health Center Jointly Lobbying for Senate Bipartisan 340B Initiative

July 25, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

340B Working Table 340B lobbying disclosure form

Under the name 340B Working Table, Genentech, Sanford Health, and Carolina Health Centers are jointly lobbying for a bipartisan U.S. Senate 340B reform initiative.

Biopharmaceutical manufacturer Genentech, South Dakota-based health system Sanford Health, and South Carolina federally qualified health center Carolina Health Centers are jointly lobbying members of Congress to back six U.S. senators’ bipartisan approach to federal 340B program reform, the three organizations

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UPDATED: Contract Pharmacy Restrictions Cut $1.5 Billion in 340B Hospital Revenue, $8.4 Billion More Endangered, Report Says

July 13, 2023 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

Drug manufacturers' 340B contract pharmacy restrictions have pulled $8.4 billion out of the savings hospitals achieve using contract pharmacies to dispense 340B drugs, a new 340B Health study found.

Early, limited versions of contract pharmacy restrictions for 340B hospitals cut their revenue by $1.5 billion in one year, according [...]

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Providers March to Capitol Hill for Second Straight Year to ‘Defend 340B’

July 13, 2023 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Around 50 340B provider advocates marched to the U.S. Capitol yesterday to urge Congress to defend the drug pricing program. Nonprofit group CV340B organized the demonstration.

On a sunny, humid, 92-degree afternoon in Washington, D.C., over 50 safety-net health care providers marched to the U.S. Capitol [...]

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Adverse Appellate Rulings in Contract Pharmacy Cases Could Be “Truly Catastrophic,” 340B Health’s Testoni Says

July 11, 2023 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

It could be “truly catastrophic” if two federal appeals courts rule as a third already has that drug makers do not have to deliver 340B drugs to multiple contract pharmacies, 340B Health President and CEO Maureen Testoni said at the 340B Coalition summer conference.

It could be “truly catastrophic” if two federal appeals courts rule as a third did in January that drug manufacturers [...]

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Group Seeking New 340C Program for Grantees and Rural Hospitals Is Ramping Up Advocacy

July 5, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

More than 100 health centers and groups have signed a letter to Congress supporting the 340C initiative.

The national health center group promoting 340C—a proposed alternative to the 340B drug pricing program for health centers, federal grantees, [...]

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NRHA Launches New 340B Policy and Advocacy Campaign

July 5, 2023 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

The National Rural Health Association has intensified its 340B advocacy work with a new congressional campaign and set of policy principles.

The National Rural Health Association has intensified its 340B advocacy work with a new congressional campaign and set of policy [...]

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ASAP 340B, PhRMA and NACHC’s 340B Alliance, Challenges Hospitals to “Join the Conversation”

June 29, 2023 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

ASAP 340B, a coalition of a drug industry trade group and a community health center organization, added a civil rights group to its membership.

ASAP 340B, the nonprofit group that the brand drug industry and health centers formed to help advance the two sides’ joint plan to remake the 340B program, held its first webinar yesterday to describe its policy principles and call for

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

June 21, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

Shannon Burger, president of RWC-340B,, said the organization “strongly opposes" a new 340B overhaul bill.

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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Protest Held at Indiana Congressman’s State Office Against His 340B Hospital Reporting Bill

June 8, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

AIDS Healthcare Foundation advocates marched yesterday outside U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon's (R-Ind.) Terre Haute, Ind., office to protest Bucshon's bill to impose reporting requirements on 340B hospitals and potentially other covered entities.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation staged a march yesterday outside U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon’s (R-Ind.) Terre Haute office to protest his bill that would require 340B disproportionate share hospitals to report data about patients who get 340B drugs, spending on charity care,

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