From Specialty Pharmacy News - In recent years, 340B pricing has grown in profile on health plans’ radar screens as more hospitals purchase smaller physician offices and as providers shift patients to outpatient hospital facilities, where care often costs twice as much as the same service provided in a community practice. Entities participating in the 340B program purchase drugs at deeply discounted rates and can treat all patients, both insured and uninsured, with those cheaper drugs — but then bill plans at higher contracted rates.
But it’s not only plans that are concerned with the 340B program.
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