September 18, 2017—National Public Radio and Kaiser Health News have collaborated on an in-depth report on how a federal law that denies rural hospitals 340B drug discounts on orphan drugs “has left rural hospital pharmacists and health care workers struggling to keep medicines in stock, and wondering if they will be able to adequately care for patients.” … [Read more...]
New 340B Program Database Goes Live
September 18, 2017—The registration component of 340B OPAIS, the Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Pharmacy Affairs’ new and improved 340B program database, went live on Sept. 18 and is “ready for participating Covered Entities and Manufacturers to create User Accounts and access the system,” OPA announced on its homepage. … [Read more...]
Don’t Cut Medicare Drug Reimbursement, Hospitals and Cancer Doctors Urge Trump Administration
September 12, 2017—A Trump administration agency proposal to slash Medicare Part B drug reimbursement to hospitals in the 340B drug discount program by nearly 30 percent is counterproductive and would actually reduce access to care, a group of over 1,300 hospitals said in comments submitted yesterday to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). 340B hospitals … [Read more...]
Senate Appropriators Vote to Fund 340B Program at $10.2 Million for FY 2018
September 7, 2017—The Senate Appropriations Committee approved legislation today that includes $10.2 million to run the 340B drug discount program in the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. In the report accompanying the bill, the committee urges the Office of Pharmacy Affairs, the Health Resources and Services Administration unit that administers the 340B program, to complete … [Read more...]
HRSA Holding Webinars on Revamped 340B Program Database
September 5, 2017—The Health Resources and Services Administration is holding separate introductory webinars next week for healthcare providers and drug manufacturers on its forthcoming replacement for the 340B drug discount program database. … [Read more...]
340B Is Good Conservative Policy
August 30, 2017—There’s been an uptick in editorials by conservative leaders across America on the 340B program’s importance as a lifeline for safety-net and rural hospitals. They rightfully warn federal policymakers not to let down their communities by curtailing 340B through misguided laws or regulations. Republican State Rep. Terri Funk Sypolt of the West Virginia House … [Read more...]
340B Hospitals Resilient as Hurricane Batters Texas and Louisiana
August 29, 2017—340B Health, the association of hospitals and health systems in the 340B drug discount program, expresses solidarity with its roughly 50 member hospitals in Texas and Louisiana and their staffs, families, and patients as they cope with the destruction and flooding wrought by Hurricane Harvey. Texas has been hit especially hard by the massive storm, which is … [Read more...]