Federal Court: CMS Should Quickly Revisit 340B Pay Cuts From 2018, 2019

A federal D.C. district court judge is giving CMS the “first crack at crafting appropriate remedial measures” to fix the cut to hospitals’ pay for 340B drugs included in both the 2018 pay rule and the 2019 rule, as the court on Monday (May 6) said CMS did not have authority to put forward the cuts in either regulation. Federal D.C. district court Judge Rudolph Contreras in December ruled that CMS did not have the authority to reduce reimbursement by...