A clear look at the 340B program: how hospitals generate revenue from drug discounts, why it has expanded, and the growing ...

The 340B program spent $43.9 billion in 2021, supporting nearly 50,000 hospitals with discounted outpatient drugs. Cancer drugs constitute 41% of 340B purchases, with outpatient departments and ...

On April 24, 2025, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee, led by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), released a report on its investigation into the 340B program. The investigation, ...

Amid barbs over the shutdown and broader healthcare funding cuts, a Thursday committee hearing brought bipartisan agreement that more can be done to ensure the pricey drug subsidy program remains a ...

The federal 340B Drug Pricing Program ("340B Program") was created by Congress in 1992 through an amendment to the Public Health Service Act. [i] The program, which is administered by the Health ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was designed to help safety net providers serve low-income patients, but it has since ballooned into a multibillion-dollar system dominated by large health systems — with ...

April 8 (Reuters) - AbbVie (ABBV.N), opens new tab has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, seeking clearer guidance on patients eligible for a drug discount program. Under ‌the 340B program, ...

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Drug companies are at it again. They will not relent in their multiyear campaign to dismantle the 340B Drug Pricing Program. Drug companies are at it again. They will not relent in their multiyear ...

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, ...