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 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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Episode 139: How Courts Are Shaping the Future of 340B
With scores of pending lawsuits involving drugmaker and covered entity challenges of how federal and state governments regulate 340B, the courts have become an important arena in the national 340B debate. 340B Health’s Vice President of Legal and Policy Amanda Nagrotsky unpacks some of the cases and what they might mean for 340B’s future. (Transcript)
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Episode 138: How To Calculate How the IRA Will Affect 340B in 2027
Hospitals already have felt some of the effects of the Inflation Reduction Act on 340B savings, but with the IRA set to expand to more drugs in 2027, hospitals also are starting to project how it might affect their bottom lines next year. 340B Vice President of Pharmacy Services and Education Steven Miller joins us to explain how hospitals can be making those projections now. (Transcript)
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Episode 137: How To Navigate a Drug Company’s Good-Faith Inquiry
Drug companies often initiate good-faith inquiries of covered entities (CEs) to learn more about certain purchase patterns or volumes, but how should hospitals navigate these requests? Bibi Wishart, director of pharmacy at Atrium Health, describes what she’s learned being on the receiving end of these inquiries. (Transcript)
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