340B Advocacy Alliance Bulletin

The AHA, joined by four other national hospital groups and an organization of hospital pharmacists representing participants in the 340B drug pricing program, yesterday filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services over the department’s failure to enforce program…
The AHA on Friday sent a letter to the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Office of Pharmacy Affairs urging the agency to order drug manufacturers and their vendor Kalderos to immediately halt their conversion of the 340B program to a back-end rebate program.
The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Oct. 16 denied AHA’s request to reconsider two decisions from this summer that upheld the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ cuts to payments for 340B drugs and for off-campus hospital outpatient clinic visits.