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The 340B windfall that misses patients

Congress created the 340B drug discount program in 1992 with a simple premise: allow hospitals and federal grantees serving a ...
The 340B drug plan language that was recently added into Senate Bill 494 risks increasing costs for the very patients it ...
The American Hospital Association has called on federal regulators to intervene after Eli Lilly sent warning letters to 340B hospitals threatening to cut off discounted drug pricing unless they submit ...
The 340B Drug Pricing Program has become a central force in the U.S. drug market, allowing certain hospitals and clinics to ...
PRESQUE ISLE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- An Onaway clinic hosted lawmakers on Friday, May 1 to discuss an increasing ...
Lawmakers impatient with the lack of progress on a key health care issue — the long-debated need for changes to what’s known as the 340B drug pricing program — say they are closing in on legislation ...
While it may be hard to believe, there is one issue in Washington that meets the above criteria: fixing the 340B program.
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 ...
Despite dramatic expansion over the past 34 years, many rural and underserved hospitals continue to face significant ...
Our Drug Pricing and Market Access team tracks recent developments in healthcare reform, the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, the 340B Program, ...