Illinois Measure Will Bring Changes to 340B

by Admin | June 5, 2012 10:07 am

June 5, 2012—Illinois is set to become the first state to require all of its 340B-eligible health care providers to participate in the federal drug discount program and then pass along to the state nearly all of their savings on 340B drugs administered or dispensed to Medicaid patients.

Gov. Pat Quinn has said he will sign S.B. 2840[1], which state lawmakers sent to him on May 24.  


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Endnotes:
  1. S.B. 2840: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2840&GAID=11&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=63280&SessionID=84
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