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Protecting the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program in Illinois means protecting access to care. Like more than 20 other states, Illinois safety net healthcare providers and their patients are urging legislators to pass legislation that would end arbitrary drugmaker restrictions on 340B discounts.

These discounts help ensure low-income patients have access to lifesaving drugs and other critical healthcare services. Here are a few examples of how 340B helps hospitals break down barriers to care for vulnerable Illinoisans:

• Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago offers new high-priced gene therapies to low-income families.
• Sinai Chicago invests in specialty clinics for diabetes, cancer and infectious disease, as well as medication management services.
• Hammond-Henry Hospital offers outpatient pediatric therapy, including physical, occupational and speech therapy, services that were limited in their community before 340B.
• Carle Health established its Transitional Care Clinic to provide intensive intervention services to medically complex patients immediately following hospitalization.
• UChicago Medicine expanded its adult emergency department and built a new adult trauma center and state-of-the-art Center for Care and Discovery focused on cancer, advanced surgery, and more.

Pass House Bill 2371 SA 2 to preserve access to care for the patients whose health depends on it. Your constituents are counting on you. Learn more.