Last month, a federal court in Maine halted the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program in its tracks — a ...

(The Center Square) – Hospitals and clinics in Michigan participating in a federal drug discount program are marking up medications and shifting costs onto public employee health plans, according to a ...

The program was meant to help hospitals provide for poor patients by offering drug savings. But critics say a Texas company has turned it into a big business, driving up costs for patients and ...

Although 340B does not operate through the tax code, its economic effects mirror those of a tax expenditure. Recognizing it as such would not prejudge the program’s merits but would force a ...

Drug manufacturers participating in the Section 340B Drug Pricing Program now face a significant new litigation risk under the False Claims Act (“FCA”). In a recent decision, Adventist Health System v ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created in 1992 to increase access to hospital outpatient medications for low‐income and uninsured patients by allowing covered entities that serve these patients to ...

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The Government Accountability Office believes Congress should slash the financial incentives the government pays hospitals in the 340B drug program, it said in a new report, over concerns that ...

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 ...