Emma Walmsley, GSK CEO (Fang Zhe/Xinhua/Alamy Live News)

GSK joins a crowd of phar­ma com­pa­nies re­strict­ing sales un­der fed­er­al pro­gram

Glax­o­SmithK­line re­cent­ly be­came the 14th bio­phar­ma com­pa­ny to switch up its ap­proach to dis­trib­ut­ing drugs pur­chased via the fed­er­al 340B pro­gram for low-in­come in­di­vid­u­als.

Ef­fec­tive April 1, GSK said it will ship prod­ucts pur­chased at the low­er, 340B prices ex­clu­sive­ly to lo­ca­tions reg­is­tered as a 340B cov­ered en­ti­ty or af­fil­i­ate with that cov­ered en­ti­ty. This con­tract phar­ma­cy pol­i­cy, which will lim­it the num­ber of en­ti­ties that re­ceive these re­duced prices, will ap­ply to 9 of GSK’s asth­ma and COPD drugs, in­clud­ing Ad­vair, Ven­tolin, Breo, Trel­e­gy, Anoro, In­cruse, Flovent, Ar­nu­ity and Serevent.

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