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 ...

Learn what the HHS 340B Drug Pricing Program is and what 340B hospitals are. The program allows 340B hospitals to stretch limited federal resources to reduce the price of outpatient pharmaceuticals ...

Senate HELP Committee Hearing Highlights Urgent Need to Reform 340B Program — Lawmakers Push for Transparency and Patient ...

For more than 30 years, thanks to bipartisan congressional support, the 340B program has helped eligible hospitals stretch limited federal resources to reduce the price of outpatient pharmaceuticals ...

The drugmaker has joined Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly in filing suit against the Biden administration over controversial reform to the drug discount program. The 340B program was created more than ...

The 340B Program has continued to undergo significant upheaval in 2024 that has the potential to bring about impactful changes to how the 340B Program operates moving forward. These developments have ...

More than three decades ago, Congress created the 340B program to help safety-net hospitals and clinics expand resources and care for underserved communities. By requiring pharmaceutical companies to ...

On February 2, 2024, six senators known as the “Gang of Six” – John Thune, Debbie Stabenow, Shelley Moore Capito, Tammy Baldwin, Jerry Moran and Ben Cardin – released a discussion draft bill intended ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created in 1992 and allows hospitals and clinics that treat a large population of low-income and uninsured patients to buy outpatient prescription drugs at a discount ...

Contract pharmacies began as a pragmatic response to assist low-resourced clinics and hospitals that did not have an in-house pharmacy. Many of the program’s earliest participants—Federally Qualified ...

Rural hospitals and community health centers are lifelines to the communities they serve. They keep small towns healthy and well, both physically and economically. In New Hampshire alone, hospitals ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care. "The ongoing abuse of 340B and Medicaid discounts is ...