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340B Drug Pricing Program Compliance
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Part Two: The MFN Drug Pricing Rule and the Rebate Rule: Where Do We Go From Here?
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Structure & Timing of the Pilot Program - On August 1, 2025, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), administrator of the 340B Drug Pricing Program, announced its voluntary 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program in...more
Key Takeaways - HRSA’s 340B rebate pilot shifts financial and operational burden to covered entities, requiring upfront drug purchases with delayed, uncertain rebate recovery....more
On July 31, 2025, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) published a notice in the Federal Register (Rebate Model Notice) announcing a 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program (Pilot Program). Notably, the Pilot...more
On July 31, 2025, the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) announced the availability of a voluntary 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program (the “340B Rebate Pilot” or the “Pilot”) that would test, for a limited...more
A periodic feature by Cornerstone Research, in which our affiliated experts, senior advisors, and professionals, talk about their research and findings. We interview Professor Sayeh Nikpay of the School of Public Health,...more
This weekly series provides brief summaries to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more
The 340B Drug Pricing Program (the “Program”) allows certain healthcare providers (“covered entities”) to purchase pharmaceuticals from drug manufacturers at discounted rates. Some covered entities do not have an internal...more
This weekly series provides brief summaries to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets on more than 40 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is currently hearing arguments from pharmaceutical manufacturers Novo Nordisk, Sanofi and AstraZeneca and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on whether the 340B...more
Recently, my colleague Regina DeSantis told you about the ongoing saga involving disputes between 340B contract pharmacies and pharmaceutical manufacturers. We often write about the 340B program on our blog because of the...more
On July 20, 2020, the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA) issued the OPA Program Update 2020. In addition to adopting new Covered Entity registration and recertification...more
In this week’s episode, Darlene Davis, Andrew Ruskin, and Gabriel Scott discuss notable recent developments for reimbursement under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”) of drugs purchased under the 340B...more
In this episode, Richard Church and Victoria Hamscho discuss recent developments in the 340B Drug Pricing Program, including recent COVID-19 guidance by the Health Resources and Services Administration and hospital requests...more
Long time readers of our blog may recall that five years ago, I predicted that 2014 might be a game-changing year for the 340B Drug Discount Program. 2014 saw attempts at regulatory changes, but a successful court challenge...more
On October 31, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPRM”) which proposes to move up the...more
On Friday, December 29, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dealt a blow to hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program. By participating in the 340B program, eligible public and...more
On November 13, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule, “Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting...more
On November 1, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule updating the Medicare hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”) for the calendar year 2018. As part of this update,...more
On November 1, 2017, CMS announced that it is in fact cutting Medicare Part B reimbursement for 340B drugs to the tune of $1.6 billion. To be accurate, what CMS announced is its intent to finalize proposed rule changes to the...more
Earlier this month the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Government Oversight and Investigations held its second hearing on the 340B Drug Discount Program. The hearing followed on the heels of a July 18th...more
In its Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule ("Proposed Rule"), CMS outlined a significant Medicare Part B payment reduction for separately payable, nonpassthrough drugs provided in the hospital outpatient...more