Federal Judges Issue Decisions Regarding Safety-Net Provider Drug Dispensing Methods

Federal Judges Issue Decisions Regarding Safety-Net Provider Drug Dispensing Methods Over the past two weeks, federal judges have issued decisions that directly impact the health and safety of underserved communities and the safety-net providers that serve them.   Each decision regards whether safety-net providers are entitled to use pharmacies that are not located at the provider’s…

Op-ed by Prominent Community Leaders Highlights Severe Damage of New York’s Proposed Medicaid Carve-out

On March 23, an op-ed written by three prominent community leaders, Ms. Hazel Dukes, Rev Kirsten John Foy, and Rev Dr. Johnnie Green, was published in several outlets, including savenysafetynet.com and empirereportnetwork.com.  Their op-ed highlights the severe damage that will be inflicted on vulnerable communities resulting from the impending policy of the New York Department…

Drug Discount Program Isn’t Disposable

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…

Further Cuts to 340B Would Be ‘Devastating’

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…

Members of Congress Aim to Drum up Support for 340B

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…