February 14, 2012—The Obama administration yesterday proposed giving the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) the ability sometime after Oct. 1, 2013 to collect a fee of up to 0.5 percent, or 5 cents on every $10, on every 340B drug purchase in order to completely end line-item funding for the Office of Pharmacy Affairs’ (OPA).
The proposal was included in the President’s Feb. 13 budget request to Congress for fiscal 2013, which begins Oct. 1, 2012.
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