Polsinelli Podcasts - Confusion to Clarity on the Future of the 340B Program
On April 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Final Rule for its oft-criticized 340B Administrative Dispute Resolution (ADR)...more
Disputes between 340B Drug Pricing Program-covered entities and the drug manufacturers required to sell outpatient drugs to those entities at discounted prices will be governed by an alternative dispute resolution (ADR)...more
US District Court for Southern District of Indiana granted plaintiffs Eli Lilly and Company and Lilly USA a preliminary injunction barring HRSA from implementing the final Administrative Dispute Resolution rule that was to...more
Two recent announcements by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) highlight the agency's plans for increased oversight in the next year of drug manufacturers under the 340B drug pricing program and...more
The Health Resources and Services Administration recently surprised the 340B Drug Pricing Program community with the release of its regulations pertaining to drug manufacturer ceiling price calculations and civil monetary...more
On January 5, 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) issued a final rule on the calculation of drug ceiling prices under the 340B Drug...more
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released its Final Rule regarding the calculation of the 340B ceiling price and the imposition of civil monetary penalties (CMPs) on manufacturers that knowingly and...more
Taking a step toward completing a requirement imposed by the Affordable Care Act, the federal government has proposed regulations that would create an administrative dispute resolution (“ADR”) process to resolve disputes...more
On August 12, 2016, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that establishes an administrative dispute resolution process for...more
Our recent post on HRSA’s Omnibus Proposed Guidance for the 340B Drug Discount Program (Proposed Guidance) noted that since the DC District Court had yet to rule on the validity of HRSA’s “interpretive” 340B orphan drug rule,...more
On August 28, 2015, the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) published proposed Omnibus Guidance (the “Proposed Guidance”) governing policies related to section 340B of the Public Health Service Act (“PHSA”),...more
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a notice of proposed rulemaking impacting the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program) on June...more
On May 23, Judge Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (DC District Court) ruled that the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) did not have the statutory authority to promulgate its...more
The D.C. District Court permanently enjoined the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) from implementing its July 23, 2013 final rule on “exclusion of Orphan...more
On July 23, 2013, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) issued a final rule clarifying the orphan drug exclusion for certain covered entities created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (“Final Rule”). The...more
Recently, HRSA publicly announced the issuance of a final rule clarifying when 340B covered entities can purchase and distribute orphan drugs through the 340B Drug Pricing Program. Separately, HRSA quietly posted a report on...more