New Analysis Provides Evidence of Hospitals Not Using the 340B Program as Intended

When a hospital becomes newly eligible for what is intended to be a safety-net program, you might expect to see the hospital serving more indigent or uninsured. For example, you would expect to see the amount of charity care the hospital provides increase with the additional revenue a hospital gets from the program. But with the 340B drug pricing program, new data shows that often the opposite happens.