340B Hospitals Criticize MedPAC’s Plan to Cut Their Medicare Drug Reimbursement

by Admin | March 16, 2016 11:00 am

March 16, 2016—Safety-net hospitals are criticizing a Medicare advisory panel’s recommendation that Congress should reduce Medicare payment rates for 340B hospitals’ separately payable 340B drugs by 10 percent of the average sales price (ASP), redirect the money saved to the Medicare-funded uncompensated care pool, and distribute those funds using data from the Medicare cost reports’ Worksheet S-10, phased in over three years.  


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