Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Providers

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will hold a public hearing April 29 about its emergency temporary standard to protect health care workers from workplace exposure to COVID-19. The temporary standard required health care providers to provide...

Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Providers

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) notified its customers that effective May 2 it will no longer offer 340B-discounted products to contract pharmacies. J&J said the decision is based on a desire to cut off any duplicative discounts or diversion, noting that “the...

Tuesday, March 22, 2022: D.C. News

The White House again urged Congress to allocate $22.5 billion in supplemental COVID-19 aid without offsets. According to the administration, it has about $300 billion in unspent COVID-19 funding, of which $240 billion is fully and publicly allocated, including $105...

Tuesday, March 22, 2022: Life Sciences

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is ramping up in-person inspections of drug and device manufacturing facilities that were delayed during the pandemic. The FDA said it plans to return to a “normal cadence” next month for inspections overseas, where...