For three decades, hospitals and healthcare systems in the 340B Drug Pricing Program have operated with a common purpose: serve vulnerable communities and stretch scarce federal resources while ...
INDIANAPOLIS (Indiana Capital Chronicle) — A somewhat obscure federal program designed to reduce drug prices for health providers is getting scrutiny from lawmakers this year, with many questioning ...
The 340B drug discount program would work better if the money followed the patient rather than going directly to hospitals, Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA, said Monday at an event on 340B sponsored by the ...
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 ...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is expected to bring significant change to the healthcare industry, including the expansion of the Public Health Service Act Section 340B Program.
The rapid expansion of the federal 340B drug pricing program is significantly affecting Medicaid budgets, particularly in states where managed care plans oversee prescription drug benefits. New ...
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.
A federal judge shows how this hospital ‘discount’ fleeces drug makers and patients.
HRSA published an announcement outlining a rebate pilot program (the rebate program) that would change how the 340B program has been operating since its inception. The rebate program would require ...
Let’s talk about 340B, the drug pricing problem that you may not have heard of, but the one that seems to have swallowed the federal budget. The program started as an attempt to help hospitals that ...
The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created to help a targeted group of safety net providers care for low-income and uninsured patients. First enacted as part of the Veterans Healthcare Act of 1992, ...
Despite strong support from safety-net providers, advocates and legislative champions, protections for the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program were not included in the final state budget. With the end ...