Reflecting on the NACHC-PhRMA 340B Alliance

Many of us in the 340B community are still trying to digest the news that the National Association of Community Health Centers has formed an alliance with PhRMA and will be advocating for major reforms to the 340B program.

The creation of the Alliance to Save America’s 340B Program (ASAP 340B) has caused the first significant fracture in the broad coalition of 340B providers in my 27 years with the 340B program.

The formation of this “strange bedfellows” alliance is disheartening but not surprising. Health center advocates are increasingly frustrated about a loss of 340B savings from contract pharmacy restrictions imposed by drug manufacturers and feel like they are the casualties in a long war between the pharmaceutical industry and hospitals. Read more >