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Drug Makers’ 340B Pricing Restrictions Hit Small Rural Hospitals Especially Hard, Survey Shows

In Research/Reports, Trade AssociationApril 12, 2022312 Views

About two thirds (64%) of CAHs and one third (33%) of larger, more urban hospitals say their ability to keep their doors open would be affected if drug company 340B contract pharmacy restrictions become more widespread.

Small rural hospitals have lost on average 39% of their 340B contract pharmacy savings due to drug manufacturers’ conditions on 340B pricing while larger, mostly urban hospitals have lost on average 23%, a hospital group’s member survey shows.

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340B Sales Growth Rate Slowed in 2021, the First Year of 340B Contract Pharmacy Restrictions

In Pharma Industry, Research/ReportsApril 12, 2022292 Views

Tom Mirga

Point of purchase scanner at pharmacy checkout

340B drug sales grew at a slower rate in 2021, the first year of 340B contract pharmacy restrictions, IQVIA reports.

Prescription drug sales at 340B-discounted prices grew 15.9% year-on-year from 2020 to 2021, drug industry consulting and contract research firm IQVIA reports, an annual growth rate below that for the two preceding years.

Last year, IQVIA reported that

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Virginia Governor Signs 340B Anti-Discrimination Bill for Grantees

In Legislative, StateApril 12, 2022373 Views

Tom Mirga

Gov. Glenn Youngkin signing legislation with supporters

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) signed a bill yesterday to stop insurers and PBMs from discriminating against 340B grantee covered entities and their contract pharmacies.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) yesterday signed legislation to stop insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from discriminating against 340B grantee covered entities and their contract pharmacies. Hospitals are excluded from protection.

The new law takes effect

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340B Report Publisher and CEO Slafsky: 340B Contract Pharmacy Program Has Fractured Into 17 Pieces

In Federal, Judicial, Legislative, Pharma IndustryApril 12, 2022218 Views

Tom Mirga

Drug manufacturers' 340B contract pharmacy actions have seemingly fractured the 340B program into pieces, 340B Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky says.

“The 340B contract pharmacy program has seemingly fractured into 17 programs, one governed by the federal government and 16 others with their own standards determined by pharmaceutical manufacturers,” 340B Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky observes in his latest

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340B ESP Makes Changes to Its Terms of Use that Entities Must Accept

In Pharma IndustryApril 7, 20221203 Views

Tom Mirga

A screen capture from 340B ESP's home page. The drug industry contractor that helps manufacturers implement 340B contract pharmacy restrictions yesterday updated its terms of use for 340B covered entities that decide to use its portal.

Second Sight Solutions, the drug industry contractor that collects 340B contract pharmacy claims data on manufacturers’ behalf through its 340B ESP portal, has revised the terms of use that covered entities must accept when they register to use

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Influential 340B Lawmaker Upton Announces Retirement

In Federal, LegislativeApril 7, 2022161 Views

Tom Mirga

Rep. Fred Upton speaks at a House hearing

U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), a former House Energy & Commerce Committee chair who 340B entities call a close ally, is retiring from Congress.

U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), a former House Energy & Commerce Committee chair who 340B entities call a close ally, announced on Tuesday he will not seek another term in Congress.

“Even the best of stories has a

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Influential Drug Cost-Effectiveness Organization Endorses Partially Lifting 340B Orphan Drug Exclusion

In Federal, Legislative, Research/ReportsApril 7, 2022205 Views

Tom Mirga

Policymakers should consider narrowing the 340B orphan drug exemption, ICER said today in a new report.

The exclusion of 340B pricing for some hospitals on drugs to treat orphan conditions and diseases could be partially eliminated to slow “the rapid growth in approved rare disease treatments” and “their cumulative affordability to the health system,”

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Illinois Legislature Passes 340B Anti-Discrimination Bill

In Legislative, StateApril 7, 2022602 Views

Tom Mirga

Illinois lawmakers have passed legislation to forbid PBMs, third party payers, and Medicaid MCOs from discriminating against 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies.

The Illinois legislature has voted to forbid pharmacy benefit managers, third party payers, and Medicaid managed care organizations from discriminating against 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies.

At least three other states have passed similar legislation so

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HRSA Refers Boehringer Ingelheim to HHS Inspector General over its 340B Contract Pharmacy Policy

In Federal, News Alert, Pharma Industry, RegulatoryMarch 29, 20221435 Views

Tom Mirga

Boehringer Ingelheim exterior sign and building

HRSA has referred Boehringer Ingelheim to the HHS Inspector General for possible imposition of civil monetary penalties over BI's conditions on 340B pricing when hospitals use contract pharmacies.

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) today turned the screws tighter on Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) over its “continued failure to provide the 340B price to covered entities utilizing contract pharmacies.”

HRSA told BI in a

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PhRMA and Arkansas Seek Faster Court Ruling on State’s Novel 340B Contract Pharmacy Law

In Federal, JudicialJanuary 21, 2022731 Views

Tom Mirga

PhRMA and the state of Arkansas have agreed on a plan that could lead the federal district court in Little Rock to rule sooner than now anticipated on the state’s law protecting 340B contract pharmacy arrangements.

The brand name drug industry and the state of Arkansas have agreed on a litigation plan that could lead to a quicker federal court decision than now anticipated on the state’s one-of-a-kind law protecting 340B contract pharmacy arrangements.

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