Rural hospitals that enroll in the 340B drug pricing program are more likely to initiate oncology services than those that do not participate, a study published online Monday in Health Affairs found.
“It’s estimated that around one in five rural
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ASAP 340B, the group that drug manufacturers and community health centers formed to advance a joint 340B reform agenda, recently released a two-page explainer on how their plan would change the 340B patient definition. Under it, fewer drugs prescribed at
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340B-eligible providers prescribe generic drugs at the same overall rate as non-340B providers, a study published in JAMA Health Forum found. “We found no evidence that 340B-eligible prescribers were systematically overprescribing brand-name drugs to generate revenue,” the authors said.
Health centers and other federal grantees’ 340B savings and how they use them need more scrutiny, as these covered entities account for a large chunk of total 340B drug sales and their margins are keeping pace with those of hospitals,
…Breaking News
HRSA and Prime Vendor Yank FAQs About 340B Use in Hospital Child Sites, and GAO Issues a New 340B Study
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration midday yesterday and the 340B prime vendor Apexus this morning, in connection with the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency late last night, withdrew mostly identical 340B program FAQs about use of
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Prescription drug sales at 340B prices grew 12.2% year-on-year from 2021 to 2022, drug industry consulting and research firm IQVIA says in a new white paper. That is down 3.7 percentage points compared with 340B sales growth from 2020
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Research published online yesterday in the journal Health Affairs suggests that 340B hospitals are less likely than others to use biosimilar drugs, “possibly as a result of financial incentives making reference drugs more profitable than biosimilar medications.”
Groups that represent
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Hospitals’ 340B savings for the first five of the 21 companies to impose conditions on 340B pricing when providers use contract pharmacies decreased by an estimated $1.1 billion from 2020 to 2021, hospital group 340B Health said in a new
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Congressional Medicare advisers yesterday formally recommended replacing the formula Medicare uses to distribute extra payments to safety net hospitals that disproportionately serve low-income and/or uninsured beneficiaries.
The 340B program uses the same calculation—the Medicare disproportionate share adjustment percentage—to determine eligibility
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More than 100 million Americans—almost one-third of the population, and many of them children—lack access to a usual source of primary care due to a shortage of providers in their community, leading to delays in care, poorer health outcomes, and
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