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…
In an op-ed submitted to the South Dade News Leader, Florida state Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell announces her support of the 340B program and pledges to fight to protect it. The 340B program is one of the most important sources of affordable, critical care for the residents of South Florida. In her op-ed, Rep. Mucarsel-Powell states:…
On June 12 2019, 340B Health released their Annual 340B Health Member Survey Report for 2018. This year’s survey garnered a record number of responses from our 340B Health members, especially those in rural areas. The annual survey takes a comprehensive look at hospitals’ 340B operations, including how 340B savings are being used to support…
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…