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340B Legislative Reforms: Where Do We Go From Here?

 
• By Cathy Kelly

Third US Senate committee hearing on 340B reforms focuses on the need for legislation requiring that providers report the drug discounts received and how they use the savings, but prospects for achieving change are unclear.

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After multiple hearings on 340B reform in both the US House and Senate over the past two years, there is evident interest among Republicans and the Trump Administration in moving legislation requiring health care providers to report back to the federal government on how they are using the savings from 340B prescription drug discounts.

The concept has been supported by the leadership of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which held its third hearing on the 340B program June 19. And it is also among the recommendations in a report released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in January after a series of hearings

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