Hospitals that serve a high volume of low-income and uninsured patients rely on Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) funding to maintain ...
It has been 30 years since the 340B drug pricing program became law. 340B is one of a series of policies that those of us serving in Congress at the time adopted to address the need for a robust ...
On April 28, AEI’s Kirsten Axelsen hosted the former North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley; Anthony DiGiorgio of the University of California, San Francisco; ...
The 340B drug discount program incentivizes hospitals to purchase outpatient clinics and prescribe more and higher-cost drugs — behaviors that tend to increase costs for the federal government and ...
For three decades, the 340B drug pricing program has helped hospitals that serve high numbers of low-income patients offer and expand a range of important programs and services that advance health ...
If HHS’ 340B rebate model pilot proceeds as planned, more than 2,700 U.S. hospitals will collectively be saddled with approximately $400 million in operational costs and 11.2 million labor burden ...
Jeff Davis, a partner in the Washington, D.C., law office of Bass, Berry & Sims, advises healthcare organizations on Medicare and Medicaid billing and reimbursement issues, with a special focus on the ...
It is with great interest that I read Representative Henry Waxman’s defense of the 340B program recently published in Health Affairs Forefront. As a physician dedicated to serving vulnerable ...
CMS' 2026 Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule includes a provision that would increase the reduction in OPPS payment rates to offset the lump sum payments previously paid to 340B ...
Here we go again: An op-ed column printed in this publication is yet another example of a drug company-focused view on the 340B Drug Pricing Program, couched in the language of reform. Its criticisms ...