340B Drug Pricing Program

The Washington Post yesterday published a letter to the editor from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responding to an April 18 editorial criticizing the 340B Drug Pricing Program. The letter states:  
The House Committee on Ways and Means, on April 28 at 10 a.m. ET, will host a hearing during which hospital and health system leaders are expected to testify on health care affordability.
The Health Resources and Services Administration should abandon its consideration of a 340B rebate model pilot program because “a rebate mechanism of any kind is flawed in both conception and design,” the AHA told  the agency today. Responding to a request for information, the AHA shared…
The AHA responds to the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Request for Information regarding a potential 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program.
The AHA and others April 17 filed an amicus brief requesting the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit grant en banc review of a panel decision that invalidated West Virginia’s law protecting 340B contract pharmacy arrangements.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit today affirmed rulings by a Mississippi district court that rejected requests by Novartis and PhRMA to enjoin enforcement of the state’s law protecting 340B pricing for contract pharmacy arrangements.