February 8, 2013—Sixteen out of the 18 federal 340B covered entity audits completed thus far found no violations of program requirements, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) reported today.
Two audits—of a Texas health center and a Florida cancer hospital—found inaccuracies in the providers’ entries in the 340B covered entity database, HRSA’s Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA) said.[ms-protect-content id=”2799″] The center and the hospital are to submit unspecified “corrective action plan(s),” according to a document on the audits that OPA posted on its website. OPA said it will update information on the remedial plans “once approved by HRSA.”
Nine of the 18 audited entities are disproportionate share hospitals and two are sexually transmitted disease clinics. The other seven are a children’s hospital, a family planning center, a consolidated health center, a tuberculosis clinic, a free-standing cancer hospital, a critical access hospital, and a community health center.
HRSA audited 51 340B covered entities during 2012 and reportedly will audit hundreds more this year.[/ms-protect-content]