Category: Providers

RWC-340B Opposes and Hemophilia Alliance Questions PhRMA and NACHC’s Push to Remake 340B

March 28, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

RWC-340B rejected and Hemophilia Alliance criticized PhRMA and NACHC's joint plan to restructure the 340B program.

Ryan White Clinics for 340B Access has announced it opposes the drug industry’s joint plan with community health centers to restructure the 340B program, saying it will increase manufacturers’ “already astronomical profits at the expense of safety net providers.”

Hemophilia

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Confidential Document Fleshes Out ASAP 340B’s Reform Objectives

March 23, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

Excerpt from a confidential PhRMA principles document

PhRMA has written an eight-page document that elaborates on its principles for 340B program reform.

A confidential document composed by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America in connection with its 340B program reform initiative with the National Association of Community Health Centers fleshes out a “coalition” vision of the 10-point reform plan that the two

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340B Hospitals Say Pharma’s Contract Pharmacy Policies Are Costing Them “Billions of Dollars”

March 23, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

340B Hospital savings by drug company bar chart

340B Health says, "For just the first five of the 21 drug companies for which there is a full year of data post-restrictions, the 340B savings for hospitals decreased by an estimated $1.1 billion from 2020 to 2021."

Hospitals’ 340B savings for the first five of the 21 companies to impose conditions on 340B pricing when providers use contract pharmacies decreased by an estimated $1.1 billion from 2020 to 2021, hospital group 340B Health said in a new

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PhRMA Discusses Joint 340B Reform Deal with Health Centers in Interview; Hospital Groups Denounce Plan

March 21, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

“There is no way for 340B to be fixed without everybody coming to the table,” PhRMA spokesperson Nicole Longo said in an interview with 340B Report.

The fallout continues from drug makers and health centers’ decision to work together to change the 340B program, with the drug industry giving its first interview about the deal to 340B Report on Friday and several hospital groups jointly blasting

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Some Provider Groups Slam NACHC and PhRMA’s 340B Plan, Others Say They’re Studying it

March 10, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

Lt. Cmdr. Emeka Egwim (left), Director of HRSA's Office of Pharmacy Affairs, spoke this morning on 340B Day at NACHC's annual Policy & Issues Forum in Washington, D.C.

A large HIV/AIDS health care group, a Democratic 340B provider ally in Congress, and three national hospital groups lambasted community health centers and drug makers’ historic announcement yesterday that they are working together to remake the 340B program. Other 340B

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Major Drug Industry and Health Center Groups Unite to Reform 340B for Patients and “True” Safety-Net Providers

March 9, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

PhRMA, NACHC, and and the National Hispanic Medical Association created a new group, ASAP 340B, and issued a 10-point plan to ensure that the 340B program “benefits patients and true safety-net providers, including rural hospitals.”

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the National Association of Community Health Centers, and the National Hispanic Medical Association this morning jointly issued a 10-point plan and created a nonprofit group to ensure that the 340B program “benefits patients and

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Health Centers and PhRMA Co-Developing 340B Policies, Hospital Group Says

March 2, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

NACHC and PhRMA are jointly developing 340B policy proposals for Congress to consider, hospital group 340B Health says.

Associations representing community health centers and brand drug manufacturers are jointly developing 340B policy proposals for Congress to consider, hospital group 340B Health told its members yesterday.

The National Association of Community Health Centers said yesterday that it had no

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One-Third of Americans Lack a Source of Primary Care and Health Centers Can Close the Gap, Says Report

February 28, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

Map of United States depicting percentages of medically disenfranchised populations

Almost one-third of Americans lack access to a usual source of primary care, the National Association of Community Health Centers says in a new report.

More than 100 million Americans—almost one-third of the population, and many of them children—lack access to a usual source of primary care due to a shortage of providers in their community, leading to delays in care, poorer health outcomes, and

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Keep 340B Strong, AHA Says in Wall Street Journal Ad

January 12, 2023 Tom Mirga, Editor at Large Views

The American Hospital Association's ad in The Wall Street Journal said, “It is in the best interest of all to keep the 340B program strong.”

The American Hospital Association purchased a large ad in The Wall Street Journal print edition Tuesday touting the 340B program’s benefits and saying, “It is in the best interest of all to keep the 340B program strong.”

The quarter-page

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Health System Makes Improvements at 340B Hospital in New York Times Investigation