Congressional Budget Office
Changing the 340B patient definition “might reduce hospitals’ and physicians’ incentives to consolidate,” the CBO says in a new analysis.

CBO Raises Changing 340B Patient Definition to Ease Pressure on Commercial Insurers

Changing the 340B patient definition “might reduce hospitals’ and physicians’ incentives to consolidate,” but to what extent “remains highly uncertain,” the Congressional Budget Office says in a new policy analysis.

House Budget Committee Chair John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) asked CBO to recommend how Congress could reduce the prices that commercial insurers pay hospitals and physicians for services, thereby lowering health insurance premiums and federal spending on subsidies for commercial insurance. CBO’s analysis noted that the prices that private insurers pay hospitals and physicians are much higher on average and have been rising faster than the prices paid by public payers.

Changing the 340B patient definition “might reduce hospitals’ and physicians’ incentives to consolidate,” but to what extent “remains highly uncertain,” the Congressional Budget Office says in a new policy analysis.

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