Cancer medicines cost twice as much at hospitals, study finds
By Katie Koziara | January 21, 2020
Cancer medicines cost nearly twice as much in hospital outpatient facilities than in physician offices in the commercial market, according to a new study from the Employee Benefit Research...
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New GAO report: Some hospitals participating in 340B may not be eligible for the program
By Nicole Longo | January 14, 2020
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report on 340B hospital eligibility compliance and made a number of alarming observations that underscore the need for more accountability...
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Nearly 50% of brand medicine spending goes to the supply chain and others
By Holly Campbell | January 9, 2020
Nearly 50% of total spending on brand medicines – the sum of all payments made at the pharmacy or paid on a claim to a health care provider – went to the supply chain and other entities in 2018,...
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New NHE data: Medicine prices declined, and hospitals were biggest driver of health care spending in 2018
By Holly Campbell | December 6, 2019
According to new data from the National Health Expenditures (NHE), retail medicine prices declined by 1% and retail medicine spending grew just 2.5% in 2018. To put that in context, hospital...
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Hospitals make 9 times more than physicians’ offices on provider-administered medicines
By Katie Koziara | September 10, 2019
A new study, conducted by the Partnership for Health Analytic Research (PHAR), found that hospitals retained 91% of the total profit on physician-administered medicines in the commercial market...
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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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