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Four drug manufacturers have announced plans to offer discounted drug prices to safety net providers under the federal 340B program via rebates instead of upfront discounts, despite the federal ...

HRSA is piloting a back-end rebate model despite CEs and numerous trade associations having raised significant legal, administrative and financial concerns with shifting a discount program to a rebate ...

The Trump administration's attempt to overhaul how safety net hospitals pay for outpatient drugs has run into a major legal wall, with a federal appeals court keeping a freeze on a controversial pilot ...

The Trump administration is pushing significant changes to the healthcare status quo that it says will save money, improve oversight and make the $4.9 trillion sector more efficient. Many of the HHS’ ...

This past September, a sub-agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) threatened to kick a pharmaceutical company out of Medicare because the company, in line with federal law, ...

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The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created in 1992 and allows hospitals and clinics that treat a large population of low-income and uninsured patients to buy outpatient prescription drugs at a discount ...

Contract pharmacies began as a pragmatic response to assist low-resourced clinics and hospitals that did not have an in-house pharmacy. Many of the program’s earliest participants—Federally Qualified ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care. "MFN reinforces the worst incentives in 340B, shifts costs ...

The 340B Drug Discount Program was designed to help safety-net providers make drugs available to low-income patients and earn revenue. Drug manufacturers have put restrictions on which pharmacies ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is expected to bring significant change to the healthcare industry, including the expansion of the Public Health Service Act Section 340B Program.