Category: Regulatory
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CMS Proposes $9 Billion in Lump Sum Payments to Reimburse Hospitals for Past 340B Part B Drug Payment Cuts
Two hospital groups separately urged Biden administration officials this month to not divert funding from non-340B hospitals and some 340B hospitals in order to repay other 340B hospitals for almost five years’ worth of illegal Medicare Part B drug payment
…Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) has signed legislation making his state just the second with a law addressing manufacturer conditions on deliveries of 340B-acquired drugs to contract pharmacies.
Arkansas’s Act 1103, passed in August 2021, was the first. A
…The American Hospital Association has asked the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to resume letting hospitals dispense 340B drugs at offsite clinics that have not yet appeared on the hospital’s most recently filed Medicare cost report.
AHA asked HRSA
…The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration has added two days to the next quarterly 340B registration period.
A HRSA spokesperson said Friday that Q3 registration for 340B covered entities, their child sites, and their contract pharmacies will begin July
…The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said this week it has created a new unit within the CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) to develop and manage federal Medicaid managed care policy.
CMS announced the
…The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Health Resources and Services Administration “are unable to predict” when they will finally replace HRSA’s 340B administrative dispute resolution process, the government said in a recent legal filing.
The government
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