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340B Reforms: Oversight Hearing Suggests Slow, Piecemeal Approach

 
• By Michael McCaughan

There appears to be bipartisan interest in beefing up HRSA’s ability to oversee the 340B program – but the next step is likely to be more hearings and fact-finding, not immediate legislative changes.

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The House Energy & Commerce/Oversight Subcommittee’s July 18 hearing on the 340B drug discount program suggests that there is serious, bipartisan interest in updating the 1992 legislation that created the program – but that the process will move forward slowly and carefully.

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