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Monday, July 3, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From
Health Affairs

 

The premium cost for oncology drugs is a burden for many patients,
especially those living in rural communities. Today, Kelsey Owsley and
Cathy Bradley examine the 340B Drug Pricing Program as a way for rural
area hospitals to increase access to oncology services.

 

Oncology in Rural Areas

Rural areas experience significant gaps in access to oncology services
and providers. Hospitals in rural areas cite the high cost of cancer
treatments and services as barriers to providing oncology services.

This is the context in which Kelsey Owsley and Cathy Bradley explore the
340B Drug Pricing Program, a program which "allows eligible
not-for-profit and public hospitals to purchase covered outpatient
drugs, including high-cost oncology drugs, at discounted prices."

The coauthors of the article, released earlier this month in Health
Affairs, examine the drug program's impact on the incorporation of
oncology services into rural hospitals
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Owsley and Bradley find that those rural hospitals without oncology
services that joined the 340B Drug Pricing Program were more likely to
begin providing oncology services by 2020 than those hospitals that did
not join the program.
For more on the paper's findings, listen to Kelsey Owsley and
Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil on A Health Podyssey.
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Read the Article
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Elsewhere at Health Affairs

Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Eli Adashi and colleagues argue for
the codification of FDA's oversight of laboratory-developed tests.
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Daily Digest

To Protect Patients And Spark Innovation, Codify The FDA's Oversight
Of Laboratory-Developed Tests
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Eli Adashi et al.

Access To Oncology Services In Rural Areas: Influence Of The 340B Drug
Pricing Program
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Kelsey Owsley and Cathy Bradley

 

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