The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) recent statement that only three hospitals so far have said on a federal form that they lost their 340B eligibility due to fallout from COVID-19 does not reflect the problem’s much bigger size, hospital advocates and individual health systems say.
“HRSA’s number represents an absolute floor in terms of the number of hospitals affected by this issue,” said Marie Johnson, the American Hospital Association vice president of media relations. “As hospitals begin to finalize their Medicare cost reports and the requisite calculations, more hospitals will likely be affected by this issue. Couple this with ambiguity in the de-registration process (which clearly some hospitals have already pointed out) and HRSA’s number certainly undercounts the true impact of this issue on 340B hospitals.”
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) recent statement that only three hospitals so far have said on a federal form that they lost their 340B eligibility due to fallout from COVID-19 does not reflect the problem’s much bigger size, hospital advocates and individual health systems say.
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