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The U.S. Justice Department recently responded to AstraZeneca and Lilly's arguments in lawsuits in federal circuit court over the two drug companies' denials of 340B pricing involving the contract pharmacy program.

Feds File Briefs in Response to AstraZeneca and Lilly Arguments in Key 340B Cases

The federal government during the past week filed responses to arguments that drug manufacturers AstraZeneca and Lilly made in federal appeals courts in their 340B contract pharmacy lawsuits.

“In enacting the 340B program, Congress was clear that drug manufacturers must provide discounted drugs to covered entities so that they could prescribe and dispense necessary medications to patients,” the government said in its Aug. 11 brief in the case involving AstraZeneca. “Nothing in the statutory scheme, its history, or common sense suggests Congress simultaneously granted drug manufacturers the authority to place whatever restrictions they like on access to those drugs.”

The federal government during the past week filed responses to arguments that drug manufacturers AstraZeneca and Lilly made in federal appeals courts in their 340B contract pharmacy lawsuits.

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