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{"C167B03B-5056-A066-608A-838EB28E18B5":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"C167B03B-5056-A066-608A-838EB28E18B5","title":"Sen. Schumer Pushes for 340B ","summary":"New Hyde Park","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"November 1, 2018","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/sen-schumer-pushes-for-340b-","city":"Queens","county":"Queens","lat":40.75426239999999,"lng":-73.70846999999998,"description":"On November 1st 2018, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer visited Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, revealing that Long Island hospitals are being deprived of critical federal dollars because of an under-the-radar-cut that began in January of this year. Schumer warned that, gone untreated, this federal cut to the Island’s hospitals jeopardizes health care and services for many. Schumer explained that LIJ alone is losing about $11 million a year because of the recent federal slash. He called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reverse course on a 28.5% slash to a federal drug discount program called 340B, saying the program is critical because of how it gives hospitals who serve needy and sick patients the ability to stretch prescription medicine budgets to reduce costs and focus on local health initiatives, like beating back the local opioid scourge or leading the way on area cancer care.\r\n“An under-the-radar federal funding cut is inflicting Long Island hospitals and could upend the balance of health care here if left untreated,” said U.S. Senator Schumer. “What I mean is that doctors, caregivers and entire staffs at our Long Island hospitals work day and night to help each and every person who comes through the doors—and they do this blindly—but they do it with a little help from a federal drug discount program known as 340B. You may have never heard of its name, but you can see its impact locally, because the program works like a prescription in that it helps keep the budgetary blood flowing for our most critical care initiatives centered around opioid, cardiac and cancer treatment to name a few. 340B helps our Long Island hospitals stretch their own dollars at the local level. And moreover, as the push to reduce the costs of all prescription drugs ensues, this federal program helps lessen the burden of costly drugs that patients can’t always afford, but hospitals must always provide.”\r\nSchumer explained that in January of this year, the feds slashed the 340B hospital program which risks hospitals being stripped of their ability to provide critical services. For example, here on Long Island, services such as addiction, mental health, cardiac and cancer care could all suffer if the cut is not dealt with—that includes efforts to combat opioid treatment. Schumer is calling on HHS and CMS to reverse these cuts to protect access to essential health care services for Long Island and New York. Specifically, Schumer detailed federal cuts at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Stony Brook University Hospital, Nassau University Medical Center, St. Charles Hospital, Mercy Medical Center, and Southside Hospital. He said the 340B program has given these hospitals significant financial relief by decreasing the burden of high cost prescription medication, like chemotherapies, and it must be protected at all costs."}}

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