U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has extended the COVID-19 public health emergency for another 90 days, through July 15. It was due to end on Saturday, April 16.
Major hospital groups and group purchasing organizations asked Becerra
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Astellas Pharma is issuing 340B covered entities refunds for overcharges on three NDCs for its prostate cancer treatment Xtandi and on four NDCs for its overactive bladder medication Myrbetriq for the period from Q3 2020 through Q2 2021.
Astellas posted
Drug manufacturer Lilly is giving 340B covered entities refunds for overcharges on 14 NDCs during Q3 2019 after restating Medicaid average manufacturer prices and best prices “to account for lagged transactional data,” the company says on a notice on the
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The next period for 340B registration of new covered entities, outpatient facilities, and contract pharmacies will begin tomorrow, April 1, and end on Friday, April 15.
Eligible hospitals, health centers, clinics, and their child sites and contract pharmacies registered during
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The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) today turned the screws tighter on Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) over its “continued failure to provide the 340B price to covered entities utilizing contract pharmacies.”
HRSA told BI in a March 29
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Congress needs to give the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) comprehensive regulatory authority over the 340B program to resolve the dispute over the 340B contract pharmacy program, the Biden administration said yesterday in its proposed budget—although it did
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Generic-drug manufacturer BioComp is offering covered entities refunds for lower 340B prices that it did not pay on six NDCs for periods over eight years, starting in Q3 2013 and ending in Q2 2021.
BioComp, a wholly-owned subsidiary of San
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UPDATE Friday, March 18, 2022, 1:30 p.m. EDT—The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) told 340B Report shortly after this story was published, “To be eligible, [a] hospital’s termination must have been as a result of actions taken by
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Medicare likely would pay 340B hospitals 106% of the average sales price (ASP) for Aduhelm—Biogen’s high-cost biologic drug for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease—for the first two or three years it is on the market, not the ASP minus 22.5% 340B hospital
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Non-hospital 340B covered entities have formed a group called 340B Grantees to fight on their own behalf on legislation, in courts, and perhaps in politics at the federal and state levels.
340B Grantees hasn’t formally announced itself yet and is
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