“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 ...

Hospitals in the 340B program will get $9 billion under a proposed rule to make them whole in a lump sum payment, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. An estimated $9 billion ...

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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 ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program is a federal lifeline for vulnerable and underserved communities across the U.S., and its importance in Orlando is profound. Created to allow health-care safety-net ...

The CMS proposed a rule on Thursday that would slash Medicare payment rates for a program that hospitals use to buy discounted drugs and implement site-neutral payments for some imaging services next ...

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 Pricing Program must be reformed to better patient health and disincentivize institutional profit-seeking behaviors, says the American College of Physicians (ACP). In a new policy, ...

Congress needs to act to bring needed reforms into the 340B to make revenue from the drug pricing program more transparent and to ensure patients are benefiting from the discounts, according to a ...

Drug companies are at it again. They will not relent in their multiyear campaign to dismantle the 340B Drug Pricing Program. Drug companies are at it again. They will not relent in their multiyear ...

In 2021, we provided an overview of multiple federal lawsuits challenging the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) enforcement of the ...