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During a session at AMCP Nexus, panelists provided a historical overview on the 340B drug discount program, highlighting the intentions of the plan and the research gaps leading to misconceptions ...

“When a program designed to deliver targeted assistance drives up system-wide costs, reform is no longer optional,” says health expert Sally Pipes. “It's necessary.” If a charity organization ...

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, ...

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the U.S. administration’s planned 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program, finding that regulators likely failed to meet basic administrative law requirements ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was designed to help safety net providers serve low-income patients, but it has since ballooned into a multibillion-dollar system dominated by large health systems — with ...

340B covered entities are expanding contracts with retail pharmacies that are increasingly located in counties with high rates of Medicare and Medicaid insurance coverage. The 340B Drug Pricing ...

How courts resolve the tension between state regulation and federal preemption will shape 340B contracting and data‑sharing expectations for years to come, write attorneys at Troutman Pepper Locke in ...

Over the last two decades, Republicans and Democrats jointly supported legislation to expand 340B, the federal program that provides significant discounts on high cost, life-sustaining outpatient ...

Part of the Public Health Service Act of 1992, the 340B Drug Pricing Program lowers drug costs and increases revenues for safety-net health care providers by allowing them to pay heavily discounted ...

Hospital groups warn the 340B rebate pilot would force safety net providers to front tens of millions of dollars for drugs and drain resources from vulnerable patients. The American Hospital ...

Representative Henry A. Waxman, one of the original authors of the 340B drug pricing program, reflects on the changes over the 30 years since its passage. He writes that 340B continues to ensure that ...