Azar: 340B Reimbursement Cuts 'Transparency And Fairness' In Drug Pricing

A week after attacking drug-channel middle men, HHS Secretary Alex Azar touted cuts to hospitals' Medicare reimbursement for 340B drugs as an example of transparency and fairness in drug pricing at a community health centers conference on Friday (March 16). His remarks came day after Senate Democrats raised concerns with the cuts during a Senate health committee hearing. In the 2018 hospital outpatient pay rule, CMS cut hospitals' Medicare reimbursement for 340B drugs by 27 percent, and then-HHS Secretary Tom...