340B Drug Pricing 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.  
AHA follows up on our previous correspondence on the serious situation Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca and Sanofi are creating for the nation’s most vulnerable communities by refusing to comply with the requirements of the 340B program to sell to contract pharmacies at the discounts required by section 340B…
The AHA submitted comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ outpatient prospective payment system and ambulatory surgical center payment system proposed rule for calendar year 2021.
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ambulatory surgical center payment system proposed rule for calendar year 2020.
The AHA and other national health care groups yesterday urged the Department of Health and Human Services to protect 340B hospitals and the vulnerable communities they serve “from actions taken by five of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers that undermine access to critical drugs and…