The Government Accountability Office believes Congress should slash the financial incentives the government pays hospitals in the 340B drug program, it said in a new report, over concerns that ...

Pending legislation to expand providers’ access to discounted drugs has sparked strong lobbying campaigns for and against the proposal.

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(The Center Square) – Hospitals and clinics in Michigan participating in a federal drug discount program are marking up medications and shifting costs onto public employee health plans, according to a ...

The federal 340B program was created to help low-income patients get access to affordable medicine. But government programs usually explode beyond their original purpose. The same has happened here, ...

The 340B program allows certain nonprofit hospitals to buy prescription drugs at a significant discount. Larger urban hospitals generate most of the 340B revenue, while smaller rural clinics struggle ...

Although 340B does not operate through the tax code, its economic effects mirror those of a tax expenditure. Recognizing it as such would not prejudge the program’s merits but would force a ...

Drug manufacturers participating in the Section 340B Drug Pricing Program now face a significant new litigation risk under the False Claims Act (“FCA”). In a recent decision, Adventist Health System v ...

Last month, a federal court in Maine halted the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program in its tracks — a ...