340B Insight Podcast
340B Insight is 340B Health’s podcast, providing our members and supporters with timely news updates and discussion around the 340B drug pricing program. The podcast enables listeners to stay current and expand their knowledge of 340B to help them serve their patients and communities and remain compliant with rules and requirements. New episodes are published twice per month and include news update segments and in-depth interviews with leading experts including health care practitioners, policy and legal experts, public policymakers, and our expert staff.
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Episodes
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Episode 145: How 340B Hospitals Need To Be Thinking About New Specialty Drugs
As specialty drugs play an increasingly important role in patient care, 340B hospitals need to be planning for how to obtain these high-cost medications when they come online and how best to support their patients once they start using these treatments. Tina Do is associate director of clinical strategy and business development at Yale New Haven Health. She discusses the ways her health system has achieved success in connecting patients with some of the most complex and costly specialty drugs and what other hospitals can learn from those examples. (Transcript)
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Episode 144: Pharmacy Technicians and 340B Go Hand in Hand
The popular belief that pharmacy technicians are solely focused on dispensing drugs is a common misconception, especially when these techs are working for 340B hospitals. We speak about the increasingly important role pharmacy techs are playing in the 340B world with Dartmouth Health Senior 340B Analyst Kayla Ciampi. (Transcript)
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Episode 143: How Hospitals Can Wrangle 340B Data
A key dimension to navigating 340B involves data, because the way hospitals and their pharmacies crunch numbers can be key to avoiding compliance issues and finding new opportunities to improve savings and patient access to care. Saint Francis Health System’s 340B Program Manager Ted Houston tells us how his health system is getting the most value out of all the data. (Transcript)
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Episode 142: The Time Is Here for 340B Recertification
Mid-August to mid-September marks the time every year when hospitals need to recertify for 340B. Failure to recertify in time could cost a hospital its ability to participate in 340B. 340B Health Associate Director of Policy and Compliance Rebecca Swartz joins us to walk listeners through the process. (Transcript)
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Episode 141: Why Your Hospital Might Consider Opening a Retail Pharmacy
With hospitals facing increasing drug company restrictions on access to 340B savings and other challenges, some might be considering opening their own retail pharmacies to serve their patients. We speak with Sherstin Willyerd, director of pharmacy operations at Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Iowa, to learn about how her hospital went this route and what others want to consider before doing the same. (Transcript)
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Episode 140: What Illinois 340B Advocates Did To Succeed on 340B Protections
After years of lobbying and advocacy work by 340B covered entities, the Illinois state legislature approved major 340B legislation earlier this year that protects 340B contract pharmacy access and prohibits drugmaker claims data demands. Thomas Yu, system director of ambulatory pharmacy services at Sinai Chicago, discusses the campaign that made this legislative victory possible and what covered entities in other states can learn from this success. (Transcript)
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