In a bipartisan spending agreement that was largely negotiated behind closed doors, Congress included a policy change with major implications for Medicare payment parity and the potential to set the ...

(The Center Square) – Hospitals and clinics in Michigan participating in a federal drug discount program are marking up medications and shifting costs onto public employee health plans, according to a ...

INDIANAPOLIS (Indiana Capital Chronicle) — A somewhat obscure federal program designed to reduce drug prices for health providers is getting scrutiny from lawmakers this year, with many questioning ...

A new report paints a stark picture of how a subset of large healthcare providers is drawing the lion’s share of 340B savings within a single state. The controversial drug discount program has been ...

If New York legislators have questions about the efficacy of the 340B Drug Pricing Program, they should look closely at a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a recent opinion piece, it was suggested the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program is contributing to rising employer health-care ...

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 ...

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 ...

The drug discount program is under scrutiny on a variety of fronts ...