The U.S. Senate on Sunday rejected a Republican amendment to Democratic drug pricing and climate change legislation that would have required federally qualified health centers to make insulin and injectable epinephrine available to patients at or below 340B price.
But in a break with a defunct Trump administration regulation that would have done the same, the amendment also would have authorized paying health centers up to $3.1 billion over three years to help cover the direct cost of passing their 340B savings on the medicines to patients.
The U.S. Senate on Sunday rejected a Republican amendment to Democratic drug pricing and climate change legislation that would have required federally qualified health centers to make insulin and injectable epinephrine available to patients at or below 340B price.
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