Fed Delays Implementation of 340B Rule After Health Centers, Lawmakers Sound Alarm

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BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Community Health Centers and the nearly 30 million patients they serve have a temporary reprieve from a new regulation implementing the President’s Executive Order around insulin and EpiPens. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has revised the regulation from an Interim Final Rule to a Proposed Rule, signaling that the public will now have a chance to submit written comments before it goes into effect. The move comes after health center leaders sounded the alarm about the rule’s potential impact on vulnerable populations, flooding the federal agency with meeting requests.
“We are deeply grateful that there seems to be growing recognition among leaders in the Administration that this rule will do more harm than good at a time when too many people