Senate 340B Draft Bill May Add Contract Pharmacy Limits, Has Placeholder For Patient Definition

A bipartisan group of senators issues a request for information to fill gaps in their wide-ranging draft bill on the 340B program. The legislation covers the participation of contract pharmacies, eligibility of "child sites," claims transparency, abuses by pharmacy benefit managers, and a third party claims clearinghouse that would monitor for duplicate discounts.

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The comprehensive bill may not get far in Congress in the near term. • Source: Shutterstock

A new draft bill to reform and update the 340B outpatient drug discount program would codify the participation of contract pharmacies in the program and require manufacturers to provide discounts to those retailers without the conditions or restrictions that many now impose.

But the group of senators authoring the bill also seem open to limits on the number or location of contract...

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