On May 28, representatives from three states introduced a federal bill to amend the 340B program by recognizing contract pharmacies, restricting pharmacy benefit managers and tightening eligibility ...

“340B is a valuable program, but it doesn't always work the way Congress intended,” said Stephanie Silverman, an AIR 340B spokesperson. Overly-broad eligibility criteria for hospitals have led to an ...

Joe Grogan is a Nonresident Senior Scholar at the USC Schaeffer Institute and served as director of the White House Domestic ...

Healthcare insiders 'DSH' on IPPS, 340B eligibility, and the future of telehealth. The fiscal year (FY) 2025 IPPS proposed rule, released April 10, bodes ever-tighter financial futures for hospitals: ...

What does it mean to be a patient? For some, it means access to the best doctors and hospitals. For others, it means a courageous battle against a chronic, and perhaps incurable disease. And for many, ...

The federal 340B Drug Pricing Program, which requires pharmaceutical manufacturers participating in Medicaid to sell outpatient drugs at discounted prices to healthcare organizations that care for ...

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.

Six drugmakers who have violated the 340B statute should immediately begin offering drugs at discounted prices to hospitals participating in the federal drug-pricing program, according to a letter ...

The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), the agency charged with administering 340B, sent letters to each company, now over 30, telling them they are violating program guidelines and the ...

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, ...