Private practice oncologists have paid for a study to model what would happened in 2023 if Medicare paid 340B hospitals for physician administered drugs based on a survey of those hospitals’ drug acquisition costs taken during the COVID pandemic’s darkest days in 2020.
Community Oncology Alliance commissioned Avalere to do the analysis. It corporate members are mainly drug manufacturers and distributors. COA says hospitals’ lower 340B pricing on oncology drugs drives private cancer practices out of business or forces them to merge with hospitals. It says 340B discounts “should follow the patient” and any discounts “that serve to create profit centers for hospitals, which is outside the intent of the 340B program, should be eliminated.”
Private practice oncologists have paid for a study to model what would happened in 2023 if Medicare paid 340B hospitals for physician administered drugs based on a survey of those hospitals’ drug acquisition costs taken during the COVID pandemic’s darkest days in 2020.
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