More than three decades ago, Congress created the 340B program to help safety-net hospitals and clinics expand resources and care for underserved communities. By requiring pharmaceutical companies to ...
Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Bristol Myers Squibb are suing the federal government over the future of their 340B drug rebate plans. The lawsuits reflect rising tensions among drugmakers, ...
The 340B drug pricing program is complicated. A clinic leader and a hospital said that’s making it easy for there to be misunderstandings about if the savings are being passed onto the patient.
The 340B Drug Pricing Program helps poor states like Kentucky. Bigstock Senate Bill 14 in the ongoing Kentucky legislative session relates to the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program. This program ...
New York state lawmakers are considering a bill that'd make it easier for big hospital systems to siphon off financial aid that's meant for poor patients. The bill involves the 340B Drug Pricing ...
A recent proposal from the Trump administration aims to hasten the recovery of $7.8 billion in improper reimbursements for discounted drugs under the 340B program. This initiative, hidden within a ...
This past September, a sub-agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) threatened to kick a pharmaceutical company out of Medicare because the company, in line with federal law, ...
The White House has proposed good and bad ideas to reduce drug costs. Among the better ones is a reform of the obscure 340B drug program, which enriches large hospitals at the expense of patients. Cue ...
A bill in the Colorado legislature would remake a federal subsidy for hospitals into a tool to lower patients’ health care costs, if it can get past stiff industry opposition. Senate Bill 124 would ...
Widespread and longstanding abuse of a federal program designed to provide prescription drugs to low-income patients has prompted lawmakers in Minnesota and Michigan to try to rein in the 340B program ...
Drug companies are at it again. They will not relent in their multiyear campaign to dismantle the 340B Drug Pricing Program. Drug companies are at it again. They will not relent in their multiyear ...