Established under the Public Health Service Act in 1992, the 340B drug pricing program has a critical goal: improve access to medicines for low-income patients at qualifying hospitals and clinics.
For three decades, hospitals and healthcare systems in the 340B Drug Pricing Program have operated with a common purpose: serve vulnerable communities and stretch scarce federal resources while ...
Over the last two decades, Republicans and Democrats jointly supported legislation to expand 340B, the federal program that provides significant discounts on high cost, life-sustaining outpatient ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years, the cost of prescription medications has been a hot topic for many Americans, especially those living in vulnerable ...
Although 340B does not operate through the tax code, its economic effects mirror those of a tax expenditure. Recognizing it as such would not prejudge the program’s merits but would force a ...
Drugmakers have to continue paying hospitals upfront discounts for drugs in the 340B program — at least in the near term — after a federal court ruled late last week against major manufacturers that ...
As U.S. healthcare costs, overall, increase each year, Rachelle Schultz, president and CEO of Winona Health, knows that pharmaceutical spending is her health system’s fastest-growing expense — as much ...
The American Hospital Association expresses concern about Eli Lilly’s January 2026 claims-data policy and invites Lilly to work in good faith with the AHA and our 340B hospital members to find a ...
The 340B program allows certain nonprofit hospitals to buy prescription drugs at a significant discount. Larger urban ...
In 2021, we provided an overview of multiple federal lawsuits challenging the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) enforcement of the ...
The federal 340B program was created to help low-income patients get access to affordable medicine. But government programs ...