U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) Rear Adm. Krista Pedley, who has led the federal 340B drug pricing program for more than a decade, has been promoted within the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in conjunction with a major
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President Biden has accepted the resignation of U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator Tom Engels, whom former President Trump appointed to the post in November 2019. Diana Espinosa, a career civil servant who has served as HRSA’s deputy
…Community health center leaders are concerned that the Biden administration yesterday asked, but did not order, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) to postpone tomorrow’s scheduled implementation of a controversial Trump administration final rule that will require health
…Outgoing U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma both referred to 340B—obliquely in Azar’s case, directly in Verma’s—in recent farewell remarks.
In an interview with Modern Healthcare
…The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) last night on its members’ behalf asked a new federal 340B program administrative dispute resolution (ADR) panel to order drug manufacturers Eli Lilly and Co., Sanofi, and AstraZeneca to lift all “qualifications,
…Nevada’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) on Tuesday postponed “through April 1, 2021, if not longer,” a 340B program policy change strongly opposed by the state’s Ryan White CARES Act grantees.
The state health department’s Division of Public and
…In a major escalation of the fight over 340B contract pharmacy, drug manufacturer AstraZeneca late yesterday asked a federal court to declare that it “is not required to offer 340B discounts to contract pharmacies.”
As we went to press, we
…The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Tuesday afternoon posted a new webpage describing the steps health care providers and drug manufacturers must follow to invoke the 340B program’s new administrative dispute resolution (ADR) process. It simultaneously posted 11
…Drug manufacturer Bausch Health blindsided 340B covered entities on New Year’s Eve, announcing that starting the very next day, Jan. 1, more than 200 of its branded products and future branded products would no longer be available through distributor AmerisourceBergen
…The incoming Democratic chairs of two key U.S. Senate committees want the federal agency in charge of the 340B program “to take immediate action to clarify that implementation of a rebate model by [drug] manufacturers would violate a material condition
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