A clear look at the 340B program: how hospitals generate revenue from drug discounts, why it has expanded, and the growing policy debate.

The 340B program spent $43.9 billion in 2021, supporting nearly 50,000 hospitals with discounted outpatient drugs. Cancer drugs constitute 41% of 340B purchases, with outpatient departments and ...

Even as they sparred on broader healthcare policy and funding topics fueling the ongoing government shutdown, senators of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee appear to agree that ...

In recent weeks, two competing visions have emerged to legislatively modernize the federal 340B drug discount program (“340B Program”).

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 ...

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(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 ...

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 ...

Although 340B does not operate through the tax code, its economic effects mirror those of a tax expenditure. Recognizing it as such would not prejudge the program’s merits but would force a ...

Many hospitals are destabilizing small businesses across America by exploiting a little-known federal charity care program to ...

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