OPA’s 340B GPO Exclusion Deadline Still April 7

by Admin | March 25, 2013 9:25 am

March 25, 2013—Although associations representing 340B hospitals have told the Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA) that many cannot meet an April 7 deadline to comply with a new policy clarification[1] on group purchasing, the federal agency has yet to hear that from individual hospitals, OPA Dir. Cmdr. Krista Pedley said last week.

And “unless we hear from you around what some of the barriers are—which we have not—we will be sticking by the April 7 deadline,” she told hospitals during a March 19 webinar on OPA’s Feb. 7 GPO policy release. 


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  1. new policy clarification: https://340binformed.org/2013/03/two-new-faqs-on-340b-group-purchasing-prohibition/
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