Last week, prominent leaders in the Black community in New York sent a letter to state officials urging them to not move forward with a change in the Medicaid program that could needlessly harm the New Yorker’s access to 340B services. Last year, New York’s state budget included a provision that would require the New…
The deadline for members of the House of Representatives to back a bipartisan sign-on letter in support of the 340B program has been extended to February 25. Members of the House of Representatives – Spanberger (D-VA), Axne (D-IA), McKinley (R-WV), Johnson (R-SD), Katko (R-NY), and Matsui (D-CA) – are circulating the letter, which calls for HHS…
Next week, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (February 23) and the Senate Finance Committee (February 24), will hold hearings with Xavier Becerra, President Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Senate Finance committee will either reject the nomination or approve the nomination and send it…
This week, Representatives Spanberger (D-VA), Axne (D-IA), McKinley (R-WV), Johnson (R-SD), Katko (R-NY), and Matsui (D-CA) began circulating a bipartisan sign-on letter that calls on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary nominee, Xavier Becerra, to address drug manufacturers’ refusal to provide 340B drug discounts to covered entities utilizing contract pharmacy arrangements. RWC-340B was a key…
While many families are directly impacted by COVID-19 and while frontline 340B safety-net providers – certain hospitals and clinics that serve low-income patients and communities – are fighting COVID-19 – Eli Lilly is reporting record profits tied directly to their actions to limit savings for diabetes medications to 340B safety net providers. Eli Lilly 2020…
In a flurry of executive orders and other Federal Register publications, the Biden Administration has revoked several policies of the prior administration that many 340B community members viewed as having been harmful to safety-net providers and their patients. For example, the Biden Administration issued a regulator freeze, which called on the heads of executive departments and…