CMS Proposes Deeper 340B Drug Pay Cuts Based On Hospital Survey

CMS on Tuesday (Aug. 4) announced plans to deepen cuts to Part B pay for 340B drugs by an additional 6%, shortly after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit backed the agency’s pay cuts for 2018 and 2019. The agency says in its 2021 proposed hospital outpatient pay rule that the cuts it has used for the last few years – which resulted in 340B hospitals being paid about 30% less than non-340B hospitals for...