340B hospital and pharmacy groups have launched another digital ad campaign touting the 340B program’s benefits to policymakers. It comes amid a rise in negative messages about 340B from the drug industry and conservative think tanks and the publication of
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Drug company actions to limit 340B pricing through contract and specialty pharmacies are harming 340B hospitals and their patients, according to a new American Hospital Association member survey.
AHA released the results yesterday. More than 300 hospitals were surveyed in April,
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The federal government has had “more than adequate time to correct” its unlawful Medicare Part B payment cuts for hospitals’ 340B purchased drugs from 2018 through 2022 and should promptly reimburse the hospitals it harmed, the American Hospital Association said
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The National Association of Community Health Centers is asking to meet with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to discuss drug companies’ “unlawful restrictions” on 340B drug shipments to contract pharmacies.
NACHC told Becerra in an Oct. 14
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A national community health center association founded last year is launching a campaign to urge Congress to create a separate drug discount program called 340C open to health centers and perhaps rural hospitals and federal grantees.
According to a description
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340B stakeholders are responding to a long investigative article in Saturday’s New York Times that accuses a Catholic health system of exploiting the 340B discount program at the expense of one of its inner-city hospitals to enrich its other hospitals
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Ryan White Clinics for 340B Access (RWC-340B), a national organization of 340B HIV/AIDS medical providers, has published a detailed rebuttal of several recently published articles criticizing the 340B program. RWC-340B accuses article authors—many of whom are supported by the drug
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340B disproportionate share hospitals (DSH) in 2020 spent 2.2 times more on outpatient drugs per commercially insured patient than non-340B DSH hospitals and 2.6 times more than other types of 340B hospitals, a new drug industry-funded study shows.
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Healthcare providers can suppress attacks on and build support for the 340B program by doing more to show the program helps vulnerable patients, the anesthesiologist who served as President Trump’s surgeon general said yesterday.
“We are fighting to deliver care
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Top federal 340B program officials and the head of a 340B hospital group yesterday urged covered entity representatives attending a meeting near Washington, D.C., to focus on documenting and telling their 340B success stories.
The need to show that 340B
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