On March 3, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (“Court”) issued a seismic ruling effectively vacating several components of Health Resources and Services Administration’s ...

More than three decades ago, Congress created the 340B program to help safety-net hospitals and clinics expand resources and care for underserved communities. By requiring pharmaceutical companies to ...

The federal government is rolling back a pandemic-era waiver that lowered the bar for 340B hospitals to dispense discounted drugs across additional outpatient sites, a decision hospitals said will ...

Most government support programs provide benefits directly to people, whether it is SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program), TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), or housing ...

On March 3, 2026, Judge Amit Mehta of the D.C. District Court issued a decision setting aside a policy adopted by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) that required hospitals to ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created in 1992 to increase access to hospital outpatient medications for low‐income and uninsured patients by allowing covered entities that serve these patients to ...

Part of the Public Health Service Act of 1992, the 340B Drug Pricing Program lowers drug costs and increases revenues for safety-net health care providers by allowing them to pay heavily discounted ...

A federal judge handed down a decision this week in a lawsuit involving the 340B prescription drug discount program as hospitals, physicians, and drug manufacturers continue to battle over how the ...

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 ...

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