Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick summary of relevant updates from the prior week in this industry-shaping body of litigation.
Issues at Stake: Rebate Model; Contract Pharmacy; Other
- In three appealed cases challenging a proposed Louisiana law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, the appellee filed a motion to consolidate.
- In a case challenging the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA’s) decision to prevent drug manufacturers from unilaterally implementing rebate models, defendants filed a cross motion for summary judgment and opposition to the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment.
- In a case challenging HRSA’s policy limiting the circumstances in which covered entities can use their group purchasing arrangements to purchase non-340B drugs, the plaintiff filed a motion for summary judgment.
- In three cases challenging a proposed state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements in Missouri, defendants and intervenors in each case filed answers to amended complaints.
- In four cases against HRSA alleging that HRSA unlawfully refused to approve drug manufacturers’ proposed rebate models:
- In three cases, the defendants filed a cross motion for summary judgment and opposition to the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment.
- In one case, the plaintiffs filed a motion to strike portions of an amicus brief, and the amici filed a response.
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