340B In the News
Posted on August 29, 2016
Texas is home to a dedicated network of safety-net hospitals and health care providers that help expand access to care for patients across the Lone Star State, especially in rural areas. These providers do everything they can to maximize limited resources to improve their community's...
Posted on August 25, 2016
The healthcare industry is undergoing dramatic transformation as we shift from fee-for-service reimbursement to a fee-for-value payment system, promoting the value and outcome of the health-care services we deliver. We’re focused on providing the best care for the people we serve, measuring the efficiency of...
Posted on August 25, 2016
At this point, it’s getting hard to keep track of all the stories of drug companies jacking up the prices of prescription medications to nauseating heights for little identifiable reason other than the fact that, unlike in other developed countries, the U.S. government lets them....
Posted on August 25, 2016
The health care industry is undergoing dramatic transformation as we shift from fee-for-service reimbursement to a fee-for-value payment system, promoting the value and outcome of the health care services we deliver. We’re focused on providing the best care for the people we serve, measuring the...
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Why 340B Matters to South Dakota
Local Hospitals Could Lose Millions in Savings
“Our hospital, patients and community depend on the 340B program. It has a proven track record of expanding access to medical services for some of...
It is well established that low-income African Americans tend to be sicker when they arrive at the emergency room. It’s the mission of safety-net providers to treat them (and all patients) regardless of ability to pay. Unfortunately, the drug industry is working hard in...
Every day, the 340B drug discount program helps providers that treat the underserved across America and it’s more essential than ever. Yet the pharmaceutical industry has attacked hospitals for somehow failing to use it to care for the poor and vulnerable. New data show just...
If the 340B Drug Pricing Program were restricted or no longer available, safety-net hospitals would face a myriad of challenges, according to a recent study by 340B Health.
Signed into law in 1992, the 340B Drug Pricing Program — which has stirred up considerable controversy in...
The debate over high drug prices has raged for decades, thanks to the inherent tension between delivering innovative and cost-effective patient care. But recently something has changed, and it’s one that may have major ramifications for how we take care of patients– hyperinflation in drug...
A Free Market Reform that Can Help Everybody
Drug companies, like all for-profit companies, are all about profits. Their basic job is to take investors’ money and use it to get more money. Unfortunately, one major source of those bucks is Washington, DC — and government...