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…
MANCHESTER, Ky. — Grace Health opened a new clinic in Manchester on Wednesday to serve the people of Clay County and the region. The $4.3 million clinic, paid for with a grant from Health Resources and Services Administration, employs nine clinicians with an additional support staff and provides care regarding family practice, internal medicine, women’s…
Allan Nichols took essential lessons from his dad’s life — a reverence for hard work, faith and family — but his mission grew out of Gary Nichols’ death. On Tuesday after Easter, Nichols was showing visitors his nonprofit health company’s newest clinic. His right arm was in a sling after shoulder surgery, and his shirt…
For the past couple of years, we’ve been deflecting a lot of threats to our health care system from the federal level. As CEO of Sacramento Native American Health Center, a nonprofit providing care to more than 26,000 patients, I am painfully aware of how much is at stake. But now we are facing another…
It is not an easy thing for a Ryan White clinic or community health center to serve the needs of all their clients who are living with or affected by HIV. In fact, in the current political climate where receiving level funding year after year is often the best-case scenario, providing the extensive amount of…
As legislators continued to debate the future of the 340B drug discount program on Wednesday, leaders at several major health systems in both urban and rural settings raised concerns over the serious risks they face if those savings sustain significant cuts. Already, those reductions have forced West Virginia University Medicine—which serves a large, rural population—to “regroup” and…
Two stalwart supporters of the 340B program in Congress appealed today for more help engaging lawmakers and more of the public in efforts to protect the drug discount program. Reps. David McKinley (R-W.V.) and Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) spoke at a May 16 Capitol Hill briefing sponsored by Vizient, a healthcare services company that contracts with…