Hospitals in the 340B program will get $9 billion under a proposed rule to make them whole in a lump sum payment, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. An estimated $9 billion ...

Hospital groups warn the 340B rebate pilot would force safety net providers to front tens of millions of dollars for drugs and drain resources from vulnerable patients. The American Hospital ...

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is shown in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) In 1992, Congress created the 340B Drug Pricing Program to provide ...

“When a program designed to deliver targeted assistance drives up system-wide costs, reform is no longer optional,” says health expert Sally Pipes. “It's necessary.” If a charity organization ...

The 340B program spent $43.9 billion in 2021, supporting nearly 50,000 hospitals with discounted outpatient drugs. Cancer drugs constitute 41% of 340B purchases, with outpatient departments and ...

On July 2, 2026, CMS issued a proposed rule with updates to the Medicare payment rates for the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System ...

The CMS proposed a rule on Thursday that would slash Medicare payment rates for a program that hospitals use to buy discounted drugs and implement site-neutral payments for some imaging services next ...

The 340B drug discount program has followed a familiar health policy trajectory. An intervention that was supposed to ease cost pressures, it instead is producing cascading unintended consequences ...

340B IN THE HOT SEAT, AGAIN — Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is making a push to overhaul the 340B drug discount program, which has been the focal point of a lobbying war between hospitals and drugmakers ...

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In 2021, we provided an overview of multiple federal lawsuits challenging the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) enforcement of the ...