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Competing bills aim for elusive changes to drug discount program

A fight over an embattled drug discount program is intensifying on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers weigh competing proposals to reshape the program amid escalating tensions between hospitals and drugmakers. Lawmakers in both chambers have rolled out, or are planning to soon introduce, fresh proposals to alter the 340B program, which…

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Senators have outline for drug price program, but vote is elusive - Roll Call

Discount drug program requires drug companies to sell deeply discounted drugs to hospitals that serve high numbers of low-income patients.

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At No Cost to Federal Government a Lifeline for America's Communities

At its heart, 340B is about getting medicine—and the healthcare services needed to ensure their safe and effective use—to people who otherwise might go without it.

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Fierce fight with no end in sight for drug discount program - Roll Call

Drug companies complain that the 340B drug discount program has expanded beyond its original intent of helping safety net providers.

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Insurers are bypassing hospitals and delivering pricey chemo and other infusion drugs via third-party pharmacies

As they lose out on billing for such drugs, hospitals and clinics are trying to convince states to limit this practice, known as "white bagging."

Fortune

Sanders: "Medicare for All" must wait

As new chairman of the Senate HELP Committee, Sanders maps out his strategy for negotiating with GOP and Big Pharma

Salon

Largest LGBTQ+ health center in US midwest to lay off 15% of staff

Staff cuts at Chicago community health center come at a time of high-profile attacks on queer and trans healthcare across the US

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Hospitals divert primary care patients to health center ‘look-alikes’ to boost finances

A growing number of hospitals are outsourcing often-unprofitable outpatient services for their poorest patients by setting up independent, nonprofit organizations to provide primary care.

Tribune News Service

Community health centers’ big profits raise questions about federal oversight

DARLINGTON, South Carolina — Just off the deserted town square, with its many boarded-up businesses, people lined up at the walk-up pharmacy window at Genesis Health Care, a federally funded clinic.

Tribune News Service

As drugmakers cut off discounts, providers fret for low-income patients

Hospitals and community and rural health clinics that serve low-income patients say drug manufacturers have threatened their financial stability by dramatically cutting back their participation in a federal drug discount program that saves those health providers millions of dollars a year.

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court Decides Major Chevron Case Without Citing Chevron

American Hospital Association v. Becerra is another indication that lower courts are too quick to give agencies Chevron deference.

Reason

High court rules against government on drug reimbursement

The Supreme Court says the federal government improperly lowered drug reimbursement payments to hospitals and clinics that serve low-income communities

The Independent UK

Hospitals' massive cancer drug markups

Negotiated prices with insurers are often double what the hospital paid to acquire the drug, according to a new study.

Axios

Don’t divert money out of federal program meant to lower prescription prices

Focus on finding ways to substantially reduce the number of pharmacy deserts in Illinois.

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