Top Trump Aide: Hospitals Need To Stop Using 340B To Pad Profits

By Rachel Cohrs / March 4, 2019 at 6:03 PM
Joe Grogan, a top White House policy adviser, said Monday (March 4) that drug spending growth in the 340B program suggests that not all of the money is used to benefit patients, and that hospitals use the savings from the program to pad their profits. “There are too many distortions, too many games being played, and too much money being sucked out of the pockets of American patients and taxpayers without fair value. It has to stop,” Grogan, director of...


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