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Protecting 340B means protecting access to care close to home | OPINION
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By Patrick Demmer As a pastor and community advocate in Colorado, I have spent more than four decades walking alongside people in moments of hardship, families facing illness, seniors choosing between prescriptions and groceries, and working parents stretched to the breaking point. In those moments, access to affordable, local health care isn’t an abstract policy…
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Judge denies AstraZeneca’s bid to block Colorado drug discount law
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A Colorado district court judge denied drug manufacturer AstraZeneca’s request for an injunction to block enforcement of a recent law barring drug manufacturers from imposing restrictions on covered entities to obtain drugs under a federal discount program. The law states that manufacturers and others may not directly or indirectly deny, restrict or limit the acquisition…
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WATCH: Experts delve into federal drug pricing program
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A panel of experts discussed the state and national effects that the drug pricing program known as 340B is having on the healthcare industry during a breakfast hosted by Colorado Politics in Downtown Denver this month. The program developed in the 1990s allowing healthcare organizations to purchase discounted outpatient drugs to help low-income patients has…
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Experts say federal drug pricing program has been abused, misused
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A program developed in the 1990s allowing healthcare organizations to purchase discounted outpatient drugs to help low-income patients has grown into a system of abuse and misuse without government oversight, according to industry insiders. During a breakfast hosted by Colorado Politics in Downtown Denver on Tuesday, a panel discussed the state and national effects that…
