A bipartisan group of six senators introduced a bill to reform the 340B drug program, locking in hospitals' use of contract pharmacies and adding new transparency and compliance rules. The legislation would also kill HHS' contested rebate pilot within a year and replace it with a national data clearinghouse to catch duplicate discounts.
Individual market insurers are estimated to owe about $500 million in rebates to enrollees this year, a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found. Small group market insurers are anticipated to owe about $330 million, and large group market insurers are expected to owe about $250 million.
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