340B Drug Pricing Program

Digital ad campaign highlights how the 340B program supports patients and communities .
Central Vermont Medical Center (CVMC) erves a population of 66,000 and employs nearly 1,400 people in one of the most rural regions of the country. The not-for-profit community health care provider treats more than 25,000 patients through its Emergency Department, provides care to over 164,000…
Since 2018, the AHA has asked all 340B hospitals to commit voluntarily to three overarching Good Stewardship Principles (GSP) to better communicate the value of the 340B program and describe how savings from this program are used to support their patients and communities.
For over three decades, the 340B Drug Pricing Program has enabled eligible hospitals that serve large numbers of low-income patients and other underserved populations to stretch scarce federal resources and provide more comprehensive care to their patients and communities as Congress intended.
With only 11 days that the House and Senate are in session together before the fiscal year concludes, much of the attention in Washington is on how Congress will fund the government and whether there will be a government shutdown.
Hospitals that haven’t yet filed a comment letter on the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed remedy for the unlawful payment cuts to certain hospitals that participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program are urged to file a letter by the new Sept. 11 deadline.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended to Sept. 11 the deadline to submit comments on its proposed remedy for the unlawful payment cuts to certain hospitals that participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) is an integrated non-profit health system serving over 75,000 patients annually from Southwestern Vermont, parts of eastern New York, and northern Massachusetts.
As a key community institution in the heart of northern New York’s Adirondack Mountains for more than a century, Adirondack Health serves over 60,000 year-round residents and millions of visitors that frequent the region each year.