Health insurance company Humana has begun sending pharmacy provider agreements for 2022 to 340B-participating pharmacies, with claims-identification and data-reporting conditions that some 340B providers say are unsettling. They say the agreements are to be signed and returned within 30 days
…New York State and California’s nationally watched efforts to transfer their pharmacy programs for low-income individuals from Medicaid managed care to Medicaid fee for service (FFS)—both scheduled to take effect on April 1—have been temporarily placed on hold. The states
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340B covered entities say they are deeply concerned about pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts’ (ESI) requirements, effective Monday, governing what pharmacies in the PBM’s network must do when they identify that a previously submitted claim is 340B-eligible. Last night, ESI told
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Xavier Becerra, President Biden’s pick to be the next U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary survived his U.S. Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing yesterday, with a GOP foe of his nomination grudgingly predicting the panel would vote to confirm
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Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts late yesterday began notifying 340B covered entities by email that, effective March 1, it “will require a new identification method for submitting and identifying 340B eligible claims.”
A health system 340B program manager said this
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The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee this morning is holding the first of two Senate committee hearings this week on President Biden’s nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to serve as U.S. Health and Human
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President Biden is bringing a number of 340B policy experts on board to his team. Yesterday, he formally nominated Andrea Palm, most recently Wisconsin’s health secretary-designate, to be U.S. Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Palm would be
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The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), in light of the declared public health emergency in Texas, is letting eligible health care providers there enroll immediately in the 340B drug pricing program instead of waiting for the next normal
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The Biden administration should reverse “harmful Trump administration policies” that “undermined the 340B program and contravened Congress’ intent,” the group America’s Essential Hospitals advised President Biden in a letter earlier this month.
America’s Essential Hospitals’ Feb. 10 letter said
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Two U.S. Senate committees have scheduled hearings next week on President Biden’s nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be the next U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. In December, Becerra helped spearhead a bipartisan letter of
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