Competing policy efforts to lower drug prices could muddy the waters of drug pricing and leave patients unable to afford ...

___ Karen L. van Caulil, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of Floridians for Accountability in Health Care. Doug Wheeler is the Director of the George Gibbs Center for Economic Prosperity at The James ...

Key Takeaways - CMS launches Drug Acquisition Cost Survey beginning Jan. 1, 2026. OPPS hospitals must submit NDC-level pricing data for ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program allows certain medical facilities to buy drugs at a discount to support care for low-income patients. Rhode Island's new law, Chapter 288, prevents drug makers from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care. "MFN reinforces the worst incentives in 340B, shifts costs ...

Even as they sparred on broader healthcare policy and funding topics fueling the ongoing government shutdown, senators of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee appear to agree that ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Local healthcare system Bon Secours is caught in the middle of a nationwide controversy. The U.S. Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions recently released a ...

Tax-exempt hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program provided nearly $100 billion in total community benefits in 2022. According to a September 2025 report from the American Hospital ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was started in 1992 by Congress to help offset the costs of providing medications to low-income patients by allowing certain hospitals to purchase prescription drugs at ...

AHA Board Chair Tina Freese Decker talks with AHA VP Aimee Kuhlman and Monument Health CEO Paulette Davidson about the benefits of the 340B program.

A somewhat obscure federal program designed to reduce drug prices for health providers is getting scrutiny from lawmakers this year, with many questioning whether those savings are being used ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created to help a targeted group of safety net providers care for low-income and uninsured patients. First enacted as part of the Veterans Healthcare Act of 1992, ...