Reforming the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program is a fast and efficient way to reduce drug costs and protect patients. These days, some 340B hospitals are taking advantage of low-income and uninsured ...

If HHS’ 340B rebate model pilot proceeds as planned, more than 2,700 U.S. hospitals will collectively be saddled with approximately $400 million in operational costs and 11.2 million labor burden ...

The 340B drug discount program has followed a familiar health policy trajectory. An intervention that was supposed to ease cost pressures, it instead is producing cascading unintended consequences ...

The 340B drug discount program incentivizes hospitals to purchase outpatient clinics and prescribe more and higher-cost drugs — behaviors that tend to increase costs for the federal government and ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program allows certain medical facilities to buy drugs at a discount to support care for low-income patients. Rhode Island's new law, Chapter 288, prevents drug makers from ...

The 340B program spent $43.9 billion in 2021, supporting nearly 50,000 hospitals with discounted outpatient drugs. Cancer drugs constitute 41% of 340B purchases, with outpatient departments and ...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

Rural hospitals and community health centers are lifelines to the communities they serve. They keep small towns healthy and well, both physically and economically. In New Hampshire alone, hospitals ...

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 ...

Jeff Davis, a partner in the Washington, D.C., law office of Bass, Berry & Sims, advises healthcare organizations on Medicare and Medicaid billing and reimbursement issues, with a special focus on the ...

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 ...

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