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Hospital Survey: Genentech’s Cancer Drug Distribution Change Raises Costs, Disrupts Care

Move to specialty channel also raises risk of 340B noncompliance, hospitals warn
 

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March 6, 2015—Genentech’s decision last fall to move its top-selling cancer drugs Avastin, Herceptin, and Rituxan into the specialty distribution channel has cost hospitals more than $300 million and disrupted patient care, a survey of more than 200 hospitals has found. Nearly two out of five hospitals (39 percent) surveyed said the change affects their risk of 340B program non-compliance. 


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