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Property taxes are going up in a lot of places. Here’s a surprising contributor: the 340B Drug Pricing Program.

Check out the full mechanism (+ fancy charts) on Substack: www.pricepoints.health/p/prop-tax
Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible
The 340B Drug Pricing Program incentivizes tax-exempt, nonprofit health systems to expand, but that expansion can be costly for local taxpayers
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February 17, 2026 at 8:32 PM
A group of secretive vendors is exploiting a loophole in the Blue Cross Blue Shield network to make millions every year, often at the expense of patients.

To learn more about how the loophole works and where it's happening, check out the deep dive here: www.pricepoints.health/p/blues
Secretive vendors are exploiting a free money glitch in the U.S. healthcare system
BlueCard underpayments are the latest example of healthcare vendors making money from complexity
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September 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Medicaid cuts in the #OBBB may disqualify over 300 hospitals from the #340B program – about 12% of the ~2,500 providers currently enrolled.

I quantified which hospitals and states would see the biggest 340B eligibility cuts in my latest post: www.pricepoints.health/p/obbb-340b
The OBBB may disqualify hundreds of hospitals from the 340B program
Medicaid cuts could drop many hospitals below the required DSH thresholds
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July 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The 340B Drug Pricing Program has gone off the rails. What started as a way to subsidize safety-net hospitals has become a critical way for many hospitals to generate income. I wrote a deep dive on the program and how it's played out in Illinois.

www.pricepoints.health/p/il-340b
The 340B program has gone off the rails
An Illinois case study of one federal program’s unchecked growth and unintended consequences
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July 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Blue Shield of California and Hoag Health are in a contract dispute that may leave thousands of patients out-of-network on July 15. Here's what they're fighting about: www.pricepoints.health/p/bsca-hoag
Orange County’s Big Healthcare Brawl
Hoag Health and Blue Shield of California are fighting. Patients are stuck in the middle.
www.pricepoints.health
June 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
How much does it cost to give birth in the U.S.?
A lot, depending on where you live
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May 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM