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Healthcare Dive

Healthcare Dive / TechTarget, Inc. 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 United States

Healthcare Dive delivers business journalism and in-depth analysis of the developments shaping healthcare. Its website and newsletters cover hospitals, health IT, care delivery, insurance, policy and regulation, operations, digital health, electronic health records, payer-provider partnerships and value-based care. Healthcare Dive is an Industry Dive publication owned and operated by Informa TechTarget.

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Guests (1)

Sydney Halleman
Senior Editor

Episodes (1)

Untangling 340B: Medicare's Proposed Payment Cuts and the Future of Healthcare
with Sydney Halleman
In the latest episode of the Health Policy Podcast, host Bryan Hyde speaks with Sydney Halleman, Senior Editor at Healthcare Dive, about the complexities of the 340B drug pricing program and recent proposed payment cuts by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The discussion covers the implications of these cuts on hospitals, particularly rural facilities, and the ongoing debate surrounding site-neutral payments and price transparency in healthcare. The episode provides insights into the challenges of healthcare policy reform and the lobbying efforts from various stakeholders.

Notable quotes

“340B is a healthcare program that's been really thrown into the spotlight over the past decade, but especially under the Trump administration.”
“Critics have really accused this program of basically funneling money to hospitals without that money actually getting to patients.”
“The Trump administration is proposing to cut the amount of money that they send through this program by about a third.”
“Hospitals have historically been very aggressive over protecting their 340B funds.”
“Price transparency... will basically give consumers better market power to be able to decide what plans and what providers they want to visit.”
“The government has been pushing in various different ways to try and make these prices publicly accessible in file formats that are easy to read and easy to analyze.”