The rule, released Thursday, builds on Trump administration’s priorities, including cutting Medicare reimbursement for drugs ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ annual outpatient hospital pay increase proposal has come with a potential ...
A clear look at the 340B program: how hospitals generate revenue from drug discounts, why it has expanded, and the growing ...
This contributor column discusses a recent study that shows the 340B Program’s explosive growth is overwhelmingly due to utilization increases, not price. Payers have struggled with the increasing ...
An autoimmune disease diagnosis can mark the start of a difficult medical battle. But for too many patients, it also marks the beginning of a financial one. Many of the 50 million Americans living ...
“When a program designed to deliver targeted assistance drives up system-wide costs, reform is no longer optional,” says health expert Sally Pipes. “It's necessary.” If a charity organization ...
On July 31, 2025, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released long-awaited guidance establishing a 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program (Pilot Program). The announcement marks a ...
A private business has helped supercharge a controversial federal drug program. Patients and insurers have been left with big bills. By Ellen Gabler Soon after being diagnosed with metastatic breast ...
Even as they sparred on broader healthcare policy and funding topics fueling the ongoing government shutdown, senators of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee appear to agree that ...
The federal 340B Drug Pricing Program, which requires pharmaceutical manufacturers participating in Medicaid to sell outpatient drugs at discounted prices to healthcare organizations that care for ...
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 ...
The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created in 1992 to increase access to hospital outpatient medications for low‐income and uninsured patients by allowing covered entities that serve these patients to ...