Year 2 of 340B Contract Pharmacy Fight Starts With a Bang

HRSA's cease and desist letters to six drug manufacturers likely ensures that this will be another explosive year for 340B contract pharmacy. | Shutterstock

Today is the anniversary of Eli Lilly lighting the fuse on the 340B program’s most explosive year ever.

On May 18, 2020, Lilly sent the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) a letter saying that, unless it heard otherwise

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Drug Makers Defensive, Providers Thrilled About HRSA’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Letters

"Today is the day we’ve been waiting for," RWC-340B President Shannon Stephenson said about HRSA's 340B contract cease and desist letters yesterday to six drug manufacturers.

Drug manufacturers yesterday defended the legality of their restrictions on 340B contract pharmacy, in the wake of cease and desist letters from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

Groups and individuals representing 340B covered entities, meanwhile, praised HRSA

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BREAKING: HRSA to Six Drug Makers—Your 340B Contract Pharmacy Policies Are Illegal, Resume Offering 340B Pricing Immediately

HRSA Acting Administrator Diana Espinosa sent letters this morning to six drug manufacturers telling them their 340B contract pharmacy policies are illegal and must be stopped immediately.

U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Acting Administrator Diana Espinosa this morning informed six pharmaceutical manufacturers that their restrictions on 340B program pricing to covered entities that dispense medications through contract pharmacies have resulted in overcharges and are in

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HHS Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Reject 340B Hospital Request to Hear Medicare Part B Case

HHS has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decline taking up 340B hospital suit on Medicare Part B reimbursement.

While 340B hospitals eagerly await to see the Biden administration’s plans for Medicare Part B reimbursement, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last night asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an effort by hospital groups to

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HRSA Signals It Will Rescind Trump’s 340B Insulin Rule

HRSA yesterday sent its proposal to rescind the Trump administration's 340B health center insulin pricing rule to the White House for review and approval. | Shutterstock

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) yesterday asked the White House for permission to rescind the Trump administration’s final rule to require health centers to provide insulin and injectable epinephrine to low-income patients at the price the centers

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Hospital Groups Want FDA to Curtail Specialty Drug White Bagging

Hospital groups are growing more concerned about white bagging—the payer practice of requiring them to obtain specialty drugs, often for cancer treatment, from the payer's chosen specialty pharmacies. | Shutterstock

The American Hospital Association (AHA) and ASHP (the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) want the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “take appropriate action” against white bagging—the health care payer requirement that hospitals obtain specialty drugs for insured patients

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Historic U.S. Rise in STDs Boosts 340B’s Importance, STD Program Directors Say

340B drug discount savings help STD clinics and grantees expand access to quality and affordable sexual health care, the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) says. | Shutterstock

News this week that sexually transmitted disease (STD) reported cases in the U.S. reached all-time highs for the sixth straight year shows why STD clinic access to 340B drug discounts is vital, state and local STD program directors say.

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340B Report Publisher and CEO Slafsky: Providers Need Swift Action on Contract Pharmacy

With Xavier Becerra in place as HHS secretary, 340B providers are hopeful he will act fast and decisively against drug manufacturers that have either stopped providing 340B discounts or placed restrictions on 340B pricing in the contract pharmacy setting. | Shutterstock

340B health care providers are hopeful that U.S. health secretary Xavier Becerra will sanction six drug manufacturers that have either stopped providing 340B discounts or placed restrictions on 340B pricing in the contract pharmacy setting, 340B Report Publisher and CEO

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