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For-Profit Hospitals Make Major Pitch for Keeping Medicare’s 340B Hospital Cuts

United Therapeutics says that, starting May 13, entities must upload their 340B contract pharmacy claims data to its vendor 340B ESP twice monthly to "be eligible to place Bill To / Ship To replenishment orders for United Therapeutics products dispensed through a contract pharmacy.”

The association for U.S. for-profit hospitals submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court and released a study today arguing against reversing the nearly 30 percent cut in what Medicare pays many public and private nonprofit hospitals for physician-administered, 340B-purchased

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340B Entities Keeping Watch on Bills to Create State Drug Affordability Boards

The Colorado General Assembly is one of nine state legislatures considering bills to create state drug affordability boards.

Nine states are considering legislation to create boards to review prescription drug prices and intervene to lower them if drugs become too expensive or if their prices spike. Although the bills’ implications for the 340B program have not been fully

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Q2 340B Registration Period Starts April 1

A screen capture from HRSA's user guide for providers wishing to register to participate in the 340B program.

The second of four opportunities this year for covered entities to register themselves, their sites, and their contract pharmacies in the 340B program starts this Thursday, April 1 and ends on Thursday, April 15. New registrants can begin buying discounted

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Origin Biosciences Posts Limited Distribution Notice on 340B Program Site

The maker of Nulibry, a new, first-of-its-kind drug whose supply is limited, notified providers about how they can buy it at its 340B price.

The manufacturer of Nulibry, a recently approved, first-of-its-kind injectable treatment for a very rare, often fatal genetic disorder that typically appears soon after birth, has posted details about the limited distribution network for the drug on the U.S.

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HRSA Takes Step Forward on 340B Dispute Resolution Petitions

HRSA this week notified 340B covered entities that it had finished reviewing their administrative dispute resolution petitions for completeness, and determined that they were complete. | Shutterstock

The federal government on Tuesday declared 340B administrative dispute resolution (ADR) petitions by covered entities against drug manufacturers AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi to be “complete,” a sign that claims against two of the three companies—AstraZeneca and Sanofi—are ready for

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Health Centers Get Reprieve as 340B Insulin Pricing Rule Delayed Again

HHS has for the second time delayed the effective date of a Trump administration rule to require health centers to provide insulin and injectable epinephrine to low-income patients at the price the centers pay for those drugs under the 340B program. The new date is July 20. | Shutterstock

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) announced late this morning that it will delay, from this coming Monday, March 22 until July 20, the effective date of a Trump administration rule to require health centers to provide insulin

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Opposition to Express Scripts’ 340B Claims ID Requirement Grows

U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) said her successful amendment today to a spending bill sends big pharma the message "Stop hiking drug prices on consumers and discriminating against our 340B providers and pharmacies."

Correction, Tuesday March 16, 4:00 p.m. EDT—Earlier today, we reported that during a March 16 webinar, advisers to 340B covered entities said that U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) had written to pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts (ESI) about its new

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FQHCs Fiercely Oppose Trump’s 340B Insulin Pricing Rule in New Round of Comments

HRSA received 200 comments on the Biden administration's proposal to delay until July 20 the effective date of a controversial rule on how much health centers can charge low-income patients for insulin and injectable epinephrine.

Federally qualified health centers and their trade groups are adamantly opposed to implementing a Trump administration rule to require health centers to provide insulin and injectable epinephrine to low-income patients at the price the centers pay for those drugs under

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Medicare’s 340B Drug Reimbursement Cuts in 2019 Were Exacerbated by Change in Drugs’ Payment Status

A change in Medicare Part B payment status for "an unusually high" number of drugs in 2019 led to "substantially" lower payments to 340B hospitals, congressional Medicare advisers said this week.

Medicare Part B drug payments to 340B hospitals “declined substantially” in 2019 because the payment status of “an unusually high number of drugs” changed that year, congressional Medicare advisers said in a report yesterday.

The change—from “pass-through status” to “separately

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Biden Nominates Veteran Capitol Hill Aide to be HHS Assistant Secretary

Melanie Egorin, a veteran Democratic congressional health care adviser, has been tapped to be the next HHS Assistant Secretary for Legislation.

President Biden has nominated Melanie Egorin, a veteran Democratic congressional health care adviser, to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Legislation.

If confirmed, Egorin would be a top deputy to Xavier Becerra, whose nomination to

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