340B Discount Arbitrage
A federal mandate intended to lower drug costs for the poor became a profit engine for hospitals and contract pharmacies.
"Subsidy in. Margin out. Nobody named in the title sees the savings."
What is 340B Discount Arbitrage? A federal mandate intended to lower drug costs for the poor became a profit engine for hospitals and contract pharmacies. Programs without outcome auditing get arbitraged.
340B-eligible discounts billed against commercial insurance at full price.
Programs without outcome auditing get arbitraged.
Pass-through requirements. Outcome-tied use auditing.
Flip the incentive. Watch the side-effect move.
A federal mandate intended to lower drug costs for the poor became a profit engine for hospitals and contract pharmacies. Caught in the wild: 340B-eligible discounts billed against commercial insurance at full price.
In the room: Programs without outcome auditing get arbitraged.
Counter-move from the Atlas: Pass-through requirements.
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- People defend the status quo using the language of 340b discount arbitrage.
- Decisions cluster around the easiest narrative rather than the strongest evidence.
- New data changes the slide deck but not the decision.
- Anyone naming the pattern is treated as the problem.
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