How Would 340B Fare if Health Care Reform Is Struck Down?

by Admin | April 6, 2012 9:43 am

April 6, 2012—The critical access hospital in Warm Springs, Ga., President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s rural retreat, just became eligible for 340B drug discounts on April 1.

But before July arrives, the 25-bed facility in Meriwether County—where nearly one in five lives below the poverty line—could possibly find itself out of the federal program, along with nearly 800 other critical access hospitals, sole community hospitals, rural referral centers, and free-standing cancer centers across the country that gained eligibility for 340B under the Affordable Care Act[1] (ACA). 


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  1. gained eligibility for 340B under the Affordable Care Act: https://340binformed.org/beta/2010/03/obama-set-to-sign-health-reform-bill-340b-inpatient-provision-not-restored/
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