Company: Drug Discount Program Doesn’t Require Contract Pharmacy Deliveries

Mealey's (August 5, 2022, 8:15 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The text of Public Health Service Act Section 340B clearly permits pharmaceutical manufacturers to decline to deliver or sell drugs to contract pharmacies as long as they offer discounted prescription drugs to the covered entities, a conclusion the government has no answer for and simply breezes past in its brief, Eli Lilly and Co. and Lilly USA LLC argue in a July 25 Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reply brief....