Comments Due Today on How Feds Should Rectify Drug Payment Cuts for 340B Hospitals

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Today is the deadline for public comments on Medicare’s proposed rule for how it will pay for hospital outpatient services and clinician-administered drugs in 2023.

Today is the deadline for public comments on Medicare’s proposed rule for how it will pay for hospital outpatient services and clinician-administered drugs in 2023.

340B stakeholders will be paying close attention to comments on how Medicare Part B should

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Restoring 340B Hospitals’ Part B Drug Payments Would Cut Net Outpatient Payments for 80% of Hospitals, Private Cancer Doctor-Funded Study Finds

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80% of hospitals in Medicare’s outpatient prospective payment system would see their net payments decline next year if CMS ends a nearly 30% cut in 340B hospitals’ drug payments, according to a private oncologist group funded study.

Eighty percent of all hospitals in Medicare’s outpatient prospective payment system—including 52% of all 340B hospitals—would see their net OPPS payments decline next year if Medicare ends a nearly 30% cut in 340B hospitals’ drug payments that began in 2018,

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Senior HRSA Official Pedley to Deliver ASHP’s Prestigious William A. Zellmer Lecture Next Week

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Rear Adm. Krista Pedley, director of HRSA's Office of Special Health Initiatives, addressed the 340B patient definition at a conference Tuesday.

U.S. Public Health Service Rear Adm. Krista Pedley, a top official at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and former longtime head of the 340B drug pricing program, has been selected by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)

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Federal Health Officials with Significant 340B History Play Major Roles in CDC Revamp

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Ex-HRSA Administrator Mary Wakefield and current HRSA Associate Administrator are playing pivotal roles in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overhaul.

Two federal health officials with long track records managing key aspects of the 340B program are playing pivotal roles in a major overhaul of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky last month named Mary

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News Alert

Becerra Says Legislation Is Needed to Strengthen HHS Authority to Address 340B Contract Pharmacy Pricing Denials

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Congress needs to give HHS more more regulatory power and money if its wants the department to do more about drug companies that curtail the use of 340B drugs in contract pharmacies, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra told House members in a Sept. 1 letter.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told members of Congress on Thursday that his department is doing all it can with the tools it has to address drug manufacturers’ denials of 340B pricing involving contract pharmacies.

If lawmakers

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340B Report Exclusive: CMS May Owe 340B Hospitals More Money Than Anticipated

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There have been various estimates of how much it will cost the U.S. government to remedy unlawful Medicare Part B drug payment cuts for 340B hospitals.

The potential cost to the U.S. government next year of remedying unlawful Medicare Part B drug payment cuts for 340B hospitals could be higher than federal Medicare officials think.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in mid-July put

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340B Stakeholders Seek Clarity on HRSA Flexibilities as COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Winds Down

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340B covered entities are wondering if 340B program COVID-19 flexibilities might become permanent 340B program features.

The U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services encouraged health care providers on its blog last month “to prepare for the end” of its COVID-19 waivers and flexibilities “as soon as possible and to begin moving forward to reestablishing previous

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With Just a Month to Go, HRSA Releases First FY 2022 Manufacturer 340B Audit Result

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Unichem Pharmaceuticals USA must repay 340B covered entities for overcharges found during an FY 2022 340B program compliance audit.

Generic drug manufacturer Unichem Pharmaceuticals USA must repay 340B covered entities for overcharges found during a 340B program compliance audit, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) said yesterday.

HRSA has been auditing five drug manufacturers per year for

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Advocates Urge Feds to Allow Distressed Rural Hospitals to Remain 340B Eligible

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Financially distressed critical access hospitals should be allowed to keep their 340B drug discounts if they opt under a new federal law to downgrade into emergency hospitals to remain solvent, rural health advocates told CMS in comments on proposed rules to implement the law.

Congress and the White House should let financially distressed critical access hospitals keep their 340B drug discounts if they opt under a new law to downgrade into emergency hospitals to remain solvent, rural health advocates told federal health officials in

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Exclusive: HRSA Hasn’t Posted a Limited Distribution Plan Notice to 340B Entities in Almost a Year. No One Outside of the Agency Knows Why.

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HRSA has published no drug manufacturer limited distribution plan notices to 340B covered entities since mid-September 2021.

Last September, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) published a drug manufacturers’ notice to 340B covered entities that it was limiting distribution of a medicine that alleviates a side effect of HIV/AIDS treatment.

It was the fifth limited

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