340B Program Improvement and Integrity Act of 2007

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and expand the drug discount program under section 340B of such Act to improve the provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net provides.

5/14/2007--Introduced.
340B Program Improvement and Integrity Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the drug discount program to allow participation as a covered entity by certain children's hospitals, critical access hospitals, and rural referral centers or sole community hospitals. Prohibits enrolled hospitals from obtaining covered outpatient drugs through a group purchasing arrangement. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish reasonable exceptions to such prohibition, including for drugs unavailable through the program and to facilitate generic substitution when a generic covered drug is available at a lower price. Expands the program to include a drug used in connection with an inpatient or outpatient service by enrolled hospitals. (Currently, only outpatient drugs are covered under the program.)
Requires hospitals enrolled in the 340B drug discount program to provide to each state a credit on the estimated annual costs to such hospital of single source and innovator multiple source drugs and noninnovator multiple source drugs provided to Medicaid recipients for inpatient use. Sets forth a formula for calculating the credit. Allows a hospital to avoid paying such credits under certain circumstances. Requires the Secretary to:
(1) carry out activities to improve compliance by manufacturers and covered entities with the requirements of the drug discount program; and
(2) establish an administrative process for resolving claims by covered entities and manufacturers of violations of such requirements.
Requires manufacturers to offer each covered entity covered drugs for purchase at or below the applicable ceiling price if such a drug is made available to any other purchaser at any price.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM]
• and 14 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
  • Sen. Robert Byrd [D, WV]
  • Sen. C. Saxby Chambliss [R, GA]
  • Sen. Russell Feingold [D, WI]
  • Sen. Daniel Inouye [D, HI]
  • Sen. John Isakson [R, GA]
  • Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD]
  • Sen. John Kerry [D, MA]
  • Sen. Claire McCaskill [D, MO]
  • Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R, AK]
  • Sen. Bernard Sanders [I, VT]
  • Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI]
  • Sen. John Thune [R, SD]
  • Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI]
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Committees

• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.1376

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
May 14, 2007

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• May 14, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
• May 14, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6057)
• Introduced on May 14, 2007.

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Related Bills:

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Related Issue Areas:

• Medicine
• Access to health care
• Administrative remedies
• Ambulatory care
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• Business
• Drug industry
• Drugs
• Generic drugs
• Health policy
• Hospitals
• Law
• Medicaid
• Medical care
• Prescription pricing
• Rural affairs
• Rural health
• Welfare
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Executive departments

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August 26, 2008 Update: MaRisk (VA)

... S. 1082 - 1085; Röhl, Arne / Terhorst, Olaf: “Wann sind operationale Risiken unternehmensgefährdend” in Versicherungswirtschaft, Heft 16 / 2008, S. 1376 - 1378; Konsultation 8 2008 - Entwurf eines Rundschreibens MaRisk VA (pdf) ...

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June 18, 2007 Notizen zu Gramsci

(S. 1376). Eine wichtige Überlegung, denn damit kann man Kultur nicht mehr einfach nur als Gewordenes verstehen, sondern man muss nun Kultur als Einsatzpunkt von Strategien im Sozialen verstehen. Kultur ist dann entgegen aller ...

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May 24, 2007 Congress Introduces New 340B Legislation

Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and John Thune (R-SD) recently introduced S.1376, the “340B Improvement and Integrity Act of 2007”, a bill that would expand access and the utilization of the 340B

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