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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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Will New Administration Reverse Deep Medicare Part B Cuts to 340B Hospitals?

"Life in the Community" sculpture outside of CMS headquarters in Baltimore.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Tuesday asked the White House to review a hospital payment proposed rule for next year that will either keep, end, or change the nearly 30 percent cut since 2018 in Medicare

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OTC Drug Manufacturer Owes 340B Entities Refunds, HRSA Audit Finds

CDMA makes private label OTC products for supermarkets and chain and local pharmacies.

The U.S. Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) has ordered a Michigan-based manufacturer of over-the-counter (OTC) drugs that it audited to repay 340B covered entities because it did not offer its products at the statutory ceiling price.

HRSA posted

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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.

New

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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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AHA Warns MedPAC its Recommendations Would Harm 340B Hospitals

Hospitals say that Medicare Part B drug reimbursement changes that MedPAC endorsed last week would amplify the effect of Part B drug payment cuts for 340B hospitals in place since 2018. | Shutterstock

Congressional Medicare policy advisers on Friday unanimously endorsed Medicare Part B drug reimbursement changes that hospitals say would amplify the effect of Part B drug payment cuts for 340B hospitals in place since 2018.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)

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Panelists Share Insights on Using 340B in Prisons and Jails

Correctional institutions can maximize their funds and improve inmate care by partnering with or becoming 340B covered entities, but doing so can be tricky, experts said during a March 31 webinar. | Shutterstock

Prisons struggling with the high cost of treating inmates with viral illnesses such as hepatitis C and HIV can turn to the 340B program for relief, but participation is often tricky.

That was the takeaway of “Demystifying 340B for Correctional

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