HealthLeaders Media: Rural Providers Show Support for 340B in Drug Pricing Blueprint

“On the final day for public comment on the Trump administration’s blueprint to lower prescription drug prices, rural providers and advocates reiterated their support for the drug pricing program.

Rural health providers and advocates for the 340B Drug Pricing Program issued their support for the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program by Monday, the final day for public comment on the “HHS Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs.”

While the overall prescription drug pricing plan elicited more than 2,000 responses, the 340B program component generated about two dozen comments from rural health systems, disproportionate-share hospitals (DSH), and 340B Health, a leading advocate for the program on Capitol Hill.”

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