The American Hospital Association's initial comment on the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) request for information regarding a 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program.
HHS is scrapping its proposed 340B rebate pilot after hospitals sued to stop it. Providers say the plan would have created cash flow problems and administrative burdens that threatened safety-net care ...
This contributor column discusses a recent study that shows the 340B Program’s explosive growth is overwhelmingly due to utilization increases, not price. Payers have struggled with the increasing ...
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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 ...
An obscure, supposedly free federal program is blowing a hole in state budgets – by depriving state governments of billions in corporate tax revenue and inflating costs for their public employee ...
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 was designed to help safety net providers serve low-income patients, but it has since ballooned into a multibillion-dollar system dominated by large health systems — with ...
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 ...
As a permanent ostomate, I am all too familiar with the complexities of the American healthcare system. I’ve been insured, underinsured, and uninsured, often forced to ration medications and avoid ...