On February 2, 2024, six senators known as the “Gang of Six” – John Thune, Debbie Stabenow, Shelley Moore Capito, Tammy Baldwin, Jerry Moran and Ben Cardin – released a discussion draft bill intended ...

On July 31, 2025, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released long-awaited guidance establishing a 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program (Pilot Program). The announcement marks a ...

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 ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program must be reformed to better patient health and disincentivize institutional profit-seeking behaviors, says the American College of Physicians (ACP). In a new policy, ...

The federal 340B program, established in 1992, requires drug makers to give deep discounts to certain hospitals and clinics that treat low-income patients. When it was first enacted, this program ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, May 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CancerCare ®, in partnership with Pioneer Institute, released findings from their study showing 340B hospitals, on average, provide less direct financial ...

The 340B drug discount program incentivizes hospitals to purchase outpatient clinics and prescribe more and higher-cost drugs — behaviors that tend to increase costs for the federal government and ...

(The Center Square) – Hospitals and clinics in Michigan participating in a federal drug discount program are marking up medications and shifting costs onto public employee health plans, according to a ...

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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 ...

Let’s talk about 340B, the drug pricing problem that you may not have heard of, but the one that seems to have swallowed the federal budget. The program started as an attempt to help hospitals that ...