Sourcing
**Daily Apexan**
The sourcing team manages contracting relationships with this stakeholder.
Who are Manufacturers?
**Katherine B. will provide more information about working with manufacturers.**
The HRSA-designated Prime Vendor for the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
Who is Apexus?
True or False: All distributors/wholesalers in the marketplace can provide PVP contracted pricing to PVP Participants?
What is False?
This term describes healthcare providers or organizations that are eligible to participate in the 340B program.
Who are covered entities?
Often the first online educational offering completed by learners, it contains a beginner-level introduction to essential compliance elements of the 340B Program.
What is 340B University OnDemand core curriculum?
Covered entity types that are subject to the orphan drug exclusion (ODE).
What are Critical Access Hospital (CAH), Sole Community Hospital (SCH), Rural Referral Center (RRC), and Freestanding Cancer Hospital (CAN)?
Correct for any one of them.
This was recently renewed through 2028.
What is our HRSA contract?
**Daily Apexan**
This Apexan is the Lead Analyst for Distribution, providing AGP support and training, monthly finance reporting, and complex ad hoc data analysis.
Who is Kelly Farquhar?
**Chris C. to share more info about the role on the distribution team**
340B pricing is intended for drugs used in this type of patient care setting.
What is outpatient care?
The gold standard online training certificate for people interested in acing the 340B Program.
What is the Apexus Operations Certificate, ACE, or Apexus Certified Expert?
Apexus Councils that PEs attend to gain drug insights.
What are Hospital, Buyers, Title X & STD, and FQHC Councils?
Correct for any one of them.
The four colors that make up the Apexus Primary Color Palette.
What are Light Blue, Dark Blue, Light Green, and Gray?
Full points for two of the four colors.
This is how frequently manufacturers participating in MDRP (Medicaid Drug Rebate Program), and subsequently the 340B Program, provide updated 340B ceiling pricing to wholesalers/distributors to load to eligible covered entities.
What is quarterly?
The source of truth for 340B ceiling price information.
What is 340B Office of Pharmacy Affairs Information System (OPAIS)?
Optional calendar appointment for 340B online offerings. This party-style event allows Apexans to join 340B online events live, listen to the recording later, or simply review a quick, handy summary of the event that arrives in your email.
What is a Watch Party?
Three common PVP contract options available to manufacturers.
What are Sub-WAC, Sub-340B, Value-added?
The Apexan that is right now being volunteered for Friday Connect in 2026 (please pick an Apexan and format your answer as a question so we can sign them up).
Who is (Apexan chosen by the person answering this question)?
This Apexus program provides PVP Participants access to competitively priced generic medications through contracted distributors and provided almost 40% of all PVP drug cost savings to Participants in 2025.
What is the Apexus Generics Program (AGP)?
The term for when a 340B ceiling price is calculated to an amount <$0.01 and the manufacturer must charge $0.01 per unit.
What is penny pricing?
**Daily Apexan**
This team offers online teaching for topics such as Managing Waste at 340B Entities, Maintaining a Neutral Inventory, and Secondary Purchases.
Who is Purchasing Insights?
**Elizabeth F. to share more info about PI education offerings**
The price point that hospital pharmacy and therapeutics committees use when evaluating formulary decisions. This mixed price combines 340B, GPO, and WAC prices.
What is Blended Price?
**Daily Apexan**
This Apexan is fluent in English, French, Swahili, Kirundi, and Kinyarwanda; and can get by in Darija (Moroccan Arabic) and Lingala.
Who is Prudence Manirakiza?
**Prudence will provide a brief update about his team and background**
This monthly audit process with PVP authorized distributors focuses on ensuring PVP Participants are charged the correct contract price and that errors are identified and corrected.
What is Pricing Integrity?
**Daily Apexan**
Using this type of pricing/account instead of 340B for covered outpatient drugs could create a compliance risk for DSH/PED/CAN hospital types.
What is group purchasing organization (GPO) pricing?
**Natalie R. to share more info about GPO-prohibition**
Learning modules aimed toward enhancing baseline knowledge following completion of 340B University OnDemand core curriculum. These focus on pharmacy operations, application of PVP resources and tools, as well as compliance considerations.
What are 340B University OnDemand supplemental learning modules?