America’s Essential Hospitals Asks HHS to Swiftly Repay 340B Hospitals for Unlawful Medicare Drug Payment Cuts

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America’s Essential Hospitals wants HHS “to swiftly remedy five years of unlawful drug reimbursement cuts to 340B hospitals under Medicare Part B.”

America’s Essential Hospitals asked U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra late last week “to swiftly remedy five years of unlawful drug reimbursement cuts to 340B
hospitals under Medicare Part B.”

“These cuts, and a delay in recompensing hospitals for

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CMS Seeks Input on Excluding 340B Drugs from New Medicare Part D Inflation Rebates

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CMS is seeking comment on how best to exclude 340B drugs from new Part D inflation rebate invoices.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking comments by March 11 on “the most reliable way to identify” 340B-purchased drugs dispensed to Medicare Part D beneficiaries so they can be excluded from new Part D inflation rebate

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Inspector General Advises CMS to Monitor Non-Hospital 340B Entities’ Use of Modifiers on Part B Drug Claims

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HHS OIG says CMS should monitor non-hospital covered entities' use of 340B modifiers when submitting Part B claims.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General says the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should monitor non-hospital 340B covered entities’ use of modifiers to identify 340B-priced drugs in Part B claims, as these

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340B Stakeholders Weigh in on HRSA’s Proposal to Replace 340B Dispute Resolution Process

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340B contract pharmacy loomed large in stakeholders’ comments on HRSA's proposed revamp of the 340B program’s administrative dispute resolution system.

The fight over 340B contract pharmacy loomed large in stakeholders’ comments last week on a proposed federal regulation to revamp the 340B program’s administrative dispute resolution system.

Health care provider groups, citing manufacturers’ contract pharmacy policies, said they want the

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GSK Announces Refunds for 340B Overcharges on Respiratory Drugs

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GlaxoSmithKline said last week it would pay refunds for 340B overcharges occurring in Q1 2021.

Pharmaceutical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline said last week it would pay refunds for 340B overcharges occurring in the first quarter of 2021, including overcharges for blockbuster respiratory drugs Trelegy and Nucala.

The refund notice posted Feb. 2 on the U.S. Health

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Upcoming End of COVID-19 Emergency Could Prompt HRSA to End or Scale Back 340B Flexibilities

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The Biden administration plans to end the nationwide COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11.

The Biden administration said on Monday that it plans to end the nationwide COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11. When the PHE ends, COVID-related 340B program flexibilities announced in March 2020 could end too.

The U.S. Health Resources and

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AHA Seeks Meeting with HHS About Repaying 340B Hospitals for Illegal Medicare Drug Reimbursement Cuts

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The AHA wants to meet with HHS to hear how the government will repay 340B hospitals for five years’ worth of illegal Medicare Part B drug reimbursement cuts.

The American Hospital Association yesterday asked to meet with the team of federal officials that will decide how the government will repay 340B hospitals for five years’ worth of illegal Medicare Part B drug reimbursement cuts. The amount of refunds

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Astellas Notifies 340B Entities About Antifungal’s Updated NDC

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Astellas says the old and new NDCs for its antifungal drug Cresemba are interchangeable in compliant 340B inventory replenishment models.

Drug manufacturer Astellas will let 340B covered entities using “a compliant 340B inventory replenishment model” count accumulations of its antifungal Cresemba under its old National Drug Code toward replenishment of equal quantities under the product’s corresponding new NDC, the company

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Pennsylvania Rescinds Directive that Contract Pharmacies May Not Dispense 340B Drugs to Medicaid Beneficiaries

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Pennsylvania rescinded a new Medicaid policy document that said contract pharmacies could not dispense 340B-purchased drugs to Medicaid beneficiaries.

The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services yesterday rescinded Medicaid policy guidance dated Dec. 22 and effective Jan. 1 that forbade 340B covered entities’ contract pharmacies from dispensing 340B-purchased drugs to Medicaid beneficiaries.

The state primary care association warned that the

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340B Recertification for HRSA and Indian Health Service Grantees Starts Jan. 30

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Annual recertification of 340B eligibility for federally qualified health centers and most other grantee-type entities will start Jan. 30 and end Feb. 27.

Annual recertification of 340B eligibility for federally qualified health centers and most other grantee-type entities will start Jan. 30 and end Feb. 27, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration said yesterday.

HRSA did not say when Title X family

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