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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

  • Episode 119: Why Hospitals Need a 340B Purchasing Strategy

    Health systems eligible for 340B savings must strike a balance by staying compliant with purchasing rules while also maximizing the amount of eligible savings they can obtain to invest in patient care. Angela Campitelli, the director of the pharmacy 340B program at MetroHealth System in Cleveland, explains how a hospital system such as hers implements a purchasing strategy that achieves that balance. (Transcript)

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  • Episode 118: 340B Hospitals Notch a Court Win on Rebates

    After months of litigation in a federal district court, a key decision recently came out in the legal fight over 340B drug rebates. 340B Health Vice President of Legal and Policy Amanda Nagrotsky updates us on the development. (Transcript)

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  • Episode 117: How 340B Helps Put Drugs in Patients’ Hands

    More than a third of patients released from the hospital never fill their discharge prescriptions, but “meds-to-beds” programs can help improve that statistic. That is the approach Renown Health in Reno, Nev., took with the help of its 340B savings. Renown Vice President of Pharmacy Services Adam Porath joins us to describe how this meds-to-beds program improves patient care. (Transcript)

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  • Episode 116: Answers to Big 340B Rebate Questions Could Come Soon

    Big potential changes to how 340B operates plus heightened interest in both new protections and new restrictions for covered entities means there is much to keep track of in the 340B world. 340B Health CEO Maureen Testoni joins us to make sense of recent developments in the nation’s courts and beyond. (Transcript)

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  • Episode 115: How To Effectively Onboard a 340B Child Site

    The ancillary outpatient sites known as 340B child sites serve as important places for patients to access the drugs and care they need. There are crucial steps involved in effectively onboarding potential child sites as well as ongoing processes involved with maintaining the parent hospital’s partnership with those sites. University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center 340B Pharmacy Manager Joe Moss joins us to shed light on this process and the potential problems to be on the lookout for. (Transcript)

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  • Episode 114: How Hospitals Should Prepare for Clean Audits

    Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) audits of hospitals play a key role in ensuring compliance with 340B rules and regulations. In this episode, Dave Lacknauth, executive director of pharmacy services at Broward Health in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., joins us to discuss the importance of taking a proactive, comprehensive approach to audit readiness with the goal of ensuring clean audit results. (Transcript)

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