In a bipartisan spending agreement that was largely negotiated behind closed doors, Congress included a policy change with major implications for Medicare payment parity and the potential to set the ...

(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 ...

A new report paints a stark picture of how a subset of large healthcare providers is drawing the lion’s share of 340B savings within a single state. The controversial drug discount program has been ...

Some New Mexico hospitals and clinics may soon have a bitter pill to swallow as federal officials consider major changes to a widely used drug discount program. At the behest of pharmaceutical ...

New York lawmakers should heed the warning and respond. Real reforms of the 340B program cannot wait.

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 ...

More than three decades ago, Congress created the 340B program to help safety-net hospitals and clinics expand resources and care for underserved communities. By requiring pharmaceutical companies to ...

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 ...

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