House E&C GOP Leaders’ Draft Bill Would Exempt Sterile Generic Injectables from 340B Pricing Requirements

House Energy & Commerce Committee's draft bill.
GOP leaders on the House Energy & Commerce Committee released a draft bill to address drug shortages that includes a provision that would exempt certain drug products from 340B pricing requirements.
Republican leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee released a draft bill late last week that would [...]

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HRSA Tells Federal Court it Still Stands by its 340B Patient Definition in Closely Watched Case

Genesis
HRSA says it stands by its patient definition in Genesis' federal lawsuit seeking a far broader definition.
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) still stands by its 340B program patient definition, the agency said in [...]

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Do 340B Lump Sum Payments Underscore Need for More Transparency or Are They Unrelated?

Peter Pitts
Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, says the recently released 340B Medicare lump sum payments underscore the need for more 340B program transparency.
A recently proposed list of planned Medicare payments for individual 340B hospitals is seen as ammunition to some 340B critics. [...]

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Amid Historic Financial Challenges, 340B Proposed Payments Will ‘Make a Difference’ for Some Hospitals’ Budgets, Says Rating Official

Fitch Ratings webinar
A Fitch Ratings webinar on the not-for-profit hospital sector discussed the financial implications of the proposed $9 billion lump sum Medicare payment to make up for five years of illegal 340B cuts.
As the not-for-profit hospital sector slowly emerges from its worst financial year in recent history, some of those organizations’ bottom [...]

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Broad Support Emerges for Adding Duplicate Discount Modifiers to Medicaid Cards

CMS duplicate discounts
340B stakeholders broadly support adding identifiers to Medicaid drug beneficiaries’ cards to held avoid duplicate 340B discounts, comments on a CMS proposed rule show.
A federal proposal to require the addition of new identifiers to Medicaid drug beneficiaries’ cards to avoid duplicate 340B discounts [...]

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CMS’s 340B Hospital Repayment Plan Leaves Medicare Advantage Cuts Untouched

Attorney Kyle Vasquez
Attorney Kyle Vasquez says many clients feel they are entitled to a remedy for underpayments from Medicare Advantage plans stemming from CMS' July 7 proposed rule.
The recently proposed Medicare fee-for-service lump sum payments to 340B hospitals to make up for a nearly five-year unlawful rate [...]

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340B Recertification for Hospitals Starts Aug. 14

HRSA hospital recertification.
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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340B Report Publisher and CEO to Providers: New 340B Reporting Requirements are Inevitable

Tim Walz
Minnesota became the first state to impose 340B reporting requirements after Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed legislation in late May.
Health care providers almost certainly will have to accept new 340B reporting requirements in order to get unfettered access to [...]

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