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Two Reports Critique Financial Dynamics of 340B Program

March 19, 2024 William Newton, Associate Editor/Senior Writer Views

Recent reports from 46brooklyn, a nonprofit think tank, and IQVIA, a drug industry analytics firm, criticized the financial dynamics of 340B.

The 340B program may increase medication costs for self-insured employers, a recent study from a pharmaceutical industry outsourcing and analytics [...]

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340B Hospitals’ Low-Income Prostate Cancer Patients Had Better Adherence

March 19, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

Dr. Kassem Faraj and his co-authors at the University of Michigan found 340B was associated with better treatment adherence for more vulnerable prostate cancer patients.

Although 340B participation did not correlate to the start of costly treatment for men with advanced prostate cancer enrolled in [...]

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340B Small Share of Drugmaker Revenue, Says Hospital-Backed Report

March 14, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

340B drug discounts only amounted to a small percentage of total drugmaker revenue, a hospital-funded study found.

Despite the increase in the amount of 340B program drug discounts, those only amounted to 3.1% of global and 7% [...]

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U.C. Berkeley Researcher Proposes 340B Be Limited to the Indigent or that Providers Pass on their Discounts to Insurance Industry

March 14, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

Dr. James Robinson, a health economist at University of California at Berkley, criticized hospitals’ “buy and bill” drug acquisition process.

A University of California at Berkeley academic is proposing a series of major reforms to the 340B discount drug program [...]

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DSH Hospitals Are Using 340B in ‘Margin-Motivated Ways,’ Says Research Review

February 27, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

A recent Milbank Quarterly research review suggested DSH hospitals participate in 340B in "margin-motivated ways."

The highest-quality evidence from published 340B research indicates nonprofit, disproportionate share hospitals may be using the 340B program in margin-motivated [...]

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PhRMA Washington Post Advertorial Highlights Data Critical of 340B Program

February 21, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

A pharmaceutical industry advertorial in the Washington Post questioned whether the 340B program benefited hospital patients.

The leading advocacy group for pharmaceutical manufacturers recently published an advertorial in the Washington Post that highlights a range of [...]

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AHA Pans NEJM Study on 340B Price Mark Ups, Lead Author Fires Back

February 13, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

Aimee Kuhlman, vice president of advocacy and grassroots for AHA, co-wrote a blog post that criticized an NEJM study on 340B price mark ups.

The country’s largest hospital advocacy organization has leveled several challenges to a high-profile January study that concluded 340B hospitals had [...]

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340B Hospitals Had Largest Markups of High-Cost Infused Drugs: Study

January 30, 2024 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

A New England Journal of Medicine study found that 340B hospitals had larger price markups than other hospitals or physician practices for certain high-cost infusion drugs.

340B hospitals had larger price markups than other hospitals or physician practices for 57 high-cost infusion drugs, according to a [...]

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Critics of 340B Urge Congressional Reforms of the Program

December 21, 2023 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

Edolphus Towns, Jr., a former congressman (D-N.Y.) who voted to create the 340B program, recently wrote a guest editorial calling for congressional reforms.

Critics of the 340B program, including a former congressman who voted to create the program, have written recent editorials urging [...]

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340B Reforms Needed, Says Former Presidential Candidate, Drug Industry Consultant

December 5, 2023 Rich Daly, Editor in Chief Views

Howard Dean, a former Democratic presidential candidate who has consulted for the drug industry, said the 340B program is in need of reforms.

The 340B program has become “a multibillion-dollar boondoggle for hospital mega-chains” and needs reform, says Howard Dean, a one-time Democratic [...]

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