Comprehensive reform at the federal level is needed. Congress, not states, should put an end to the abuse of this important safety-net program and put it back on track for the patients it was meant to assist.
What’s the 340B program like in your state?
Contracts with pharmacies in far-flung locations nationwide. Charity care rates abysmally low. Lack of evidence profits are used to help lower costs for patients. These are just a few of the ways you can describe many of the behaviors of 340B hospitals and their contract pharmacies.
There are nearly 3,000 340B hospitals contracting with more than 33,000 pharmacies around the country today. So, how do 340B hospitals and their contract pharmacies in your state stack up when looking at metrics related to charity care and whether contract pharmacies are targeting underserved areas? Click the map below to find out.
The 340B Drug Pricing Program was designed to help vulnerable patients access medications they might not be able to afford. Unfortunately, the 340B program is broken. Today, it has become less about patients and more about boosting the bottom lines of large hospitals and for-profit pharmacies, which are mostly owned by middlemen like pharmacy benefit managers.
Comprehensive reform at the federal level is needed. Congress, not states, should put an end to the abuse of this important safety-net program and put it back on track for the patients it was meant to assist.
