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Flagship Penn hospital to get $86 million, the sixth-highest payout nationally, in Medicare drug settlement

Penn Medicine and other nonprofit health systems say savings from the 340B drug discount program provide vital financial support to their community missions.

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, shown in a 2021 file photo, is among the nation's biggest participants in a federal program that gives qualifying nonprofit hospitals steep discounts on prescription drugs administered in an outpatient clinic or taken at home.
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, shown in a 2021 file photo, is among the nation's biggest participants in a federal program that gives qualifying nonprofit hospitals steep discounts on prescription drugs administered in an outpatient clinic or taken at home.Read moreTHOMAS HENGGE / Staff Photographer