Fact Check: How hospitals continue to drive health care spending
By Nicole Longo | August 21, 2019
There is a lot of talk about health care costs in the United States that is mostly centered on prescription medicine spending, overlooking the largest share of U.S. health care spending – hospital...
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340B Spotlight: How for-profit middlemen are taking advantage of a program meant to support nonprofit entities and patients
By Nicole Longo | August 20, 2019
Congress created the 340B program to help safety-net providers, like federally-funded safety net clinics, access discounts on prescription medicines for vulnerable or uninsured patients....
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Study finds hospitals continue to mark up medicines up to 500% of their cost
By Holly Campbell | July 9, 2019
A new analysis from the Moran Company found hospitals continue to charge, on average, five times their cost for medicines, driving up cost sharing and premiums for patients across the country....
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Fresh data show, yet again, 340B is growing while charity care dwindles at many 340B hospitals
By Nicole Longo | May 16, 2019
There has been broad acknowledgement in Congress and by the Administration, as well as by patient groups and some hospitals, that the 340B program is not working as Congress intended. Yet little...
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New study finds hospitals continue to push patients to costlier outpatient settings
By Holly Campbell | May 13, 2019
A new study from the Health Care Cost Institute found that, for commercially insured patients, almost 50 percent of medicines administered by physicians, including treatments for diseases like...
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340B continues to drive shift in site of care for physician-administered medicines to more expensive hospital settings
By Nicole Longo | April 5, 2019
Is 340B benefiting the vulnerable, uninsured patients it was designed to help? Evidence continues to show otherwise. An updated analysis from Berkeley Research Group (BRG) is the latest to build...
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New study finds hospitals prescribe more medicines, and more expensive medicines, after joining 340B program
By Nicole Longo | December 18, 2018
Data and analyses continue to show the 340B program influences prescribing trends at 340B hospitals – ultimately costing patients and our health care system more money. The Government...
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New study finds some hospitals mark up medicine prices at least 700 percent
By Holly Campbell | September 5, 2018
A new analysis from The Moran Company found nearly one in five hospitals marks up medicine prices 700 percent or more. With this 700 percent markup, a $150 medicine purchased by a hospital could...
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New analysis finds 340B medicine sales hit record high in 2017 and continue to grow as a share of total drug spending
By Nicole Longo | August 20, 2018
How big is the 340B program, and what share of the prescription medicine market does it represent? Those are popular questions of late as stakeholders discuss ways to improve the 340B program. In...
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GAO again recommends improvements to 340B program
By Nicole Longo | July 11, 2018
Over the years, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reviewed various aspects of the 340B program, finding areas for improvement and providing recommendations. The latest...
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