{"id":8500,"date":"2017-11-03T09:40:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T13:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8500"},"modified":"2017-11-03T09:40:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T13:40:58","slug":"cms-to-cut-340b-drug-payments-to-hospitals-by-1-6-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8500","title":{"rendered":"CMS to Cut 340B Drug Payments to Hospitals by $1.6 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Less than an hour after Centers of Medicare and Medicaid released the final rule, America\u2019s Essential Hospitals, the American Hospital Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges said the agency has overstepped its statutory authority by cutting 340B drug payments by $1.6 billion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2017\/11\/02\/hospital-groups-to-sue-cms-over-16-billion-340b-dr?kw=Hospital%20groups%20to%20sue%20CMS%20over%20%241.6%20billion%20340B%20drug%20payment%20cut&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=BenefitsPRO&amp;cn=20171102&amp;src=EMC-Email_editorial&amp;pt=Health%20Care%20Reform%20Watch\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7780\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than an hour after Centers of Medicare and Medicaid released the final rule, America\u2019s Essential Hospitals, the American Hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8501,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions\/8501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}