HHS must stop 340B cuts through 2022, judge rules

The Health and Human Services Department must restore full 340B drug payments for the remainder of this year, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

The decision by Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is the latest blow to an HHS effort to limit spending on the 340B Drug Pricing Program and follows a Supreme Court ruling in June ordering the department to compensate providers for lower 340B payments…