March 19, 2013— The Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA) has given community health centers and six other types of 340B covered entities another extension of time to recertify their eligibility for the drug discount program.
Health centers and center “look-alikes,” hemophilia treatment centers, urban Indian programs, tribal contract/638 programs, black lung programs, and Native Hawaiian programs now have until March 22 to recertify their 340B eligibility, according to a notice on the 340B database home page.[ms-protect-content id=”2799″] The original deadline was Feb. 15. OPA pushed the date back to March 15 amid reports that many entities had missed the deadline.
According to OPA, the current recertification requirement applies to more than 5,300 individual sites. Entities that fail to recertify by March 22 will be removed from the program effective April 1.[/ms-protect-content]