House Committee to Hold 340B Hearing
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday about the 340B Drug Pricing Program. At the hearing, titled “Examining How Covered Entities Utilize the 340B Drug Pricing Program,” the subcommittee hopes …to hear directly [...]
House Members to CMS: Don’t Cut 340B Payments
More than half of the members of the House of Representatives have written to CMS administrator Seema Verma asking her to withdraw a controversial proposal that would greatly reduce Medicare reimbursement for prescription drugs for urban safety-net hospitals and other [...]
Suit Claims Low Medicaid Rates are Discriminatory
A lawsuit filed in state courts in California argues that the state’s low Medicaid payments amount to discrimination against the state’s large Hispanic Medicaid population. California pays among the lowest rates in the country to physicians, making health care inaccessible [...]
House Members Seek Delay of DSH Cuts
221 members of the House of Representatives have written to House leaders asking them to delay cuts in Medicaid disproportionate share payments (Medicaid DSH) that are scheduled to begin on October 1. The cuts, mandated by the Affordable Care Act, [...]
House Committee Looks at 340B
Are hospitals using the savings generated by their participation in the section 340B prescription drug discount program to help their low-income and uninsured patients? That’s what the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee is asking. Earlier this year the [...]
MACPAC Meets
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission met recently in Washington, D.C. Among the issues MACPAC commissioners discussed during their two-day meeting were: delivery system reform incentive payment programs Medicaid enrollment and renewal processes managed care oversight monitoring and [...]
NAUH Urges House to Delay Medicaid DSH Cuts
The House of Representatives should delay the proposed implementation of major cuts in Medicaid disproportionate share (Medicaid DSH) allotments to the states. The reduction of Medicaid DSH allotments, mandated by the Affordable Care Act, has already been delayed twice by [...]
NAUH Urges Congress to Support Withdrawal of 340B Regulation
Ask the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw its proposed regulation to reduce Medicare payments for prescription drugs covered by the section 340B prescription drug discount program. That’s the message in a bipartisan letter being circulated among members [...]
NAUH Urges Medicare to Withdraw 340B Proposal
The National Association of Urban Hospitals has urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw its proposal to significantly reduce Medicare payments for prescription drugs to hospitals that qualify for the federal section 340B prescription drug discount program. [...]
Don’t Slash Medicare Drug Payments, NAUH Asks CMS
The federal government should withdraw its proposal to drastically reduce Medicare payments for prescription drugs covered by the section 340B prescription drug discount program, NAUH has told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS has proposed a 28 percent [...]
