Health Resources and Services Administration

The drugmaker says it believes the rebate model is legally permissible and needed to improve the integrity of the 340B program.

The awards, HRSA says, will expand the number of nurses and primary care physicians while increasing behavioral health support.

J&J would become the ultimate arbiter of whether a rebate should be approved and paid, AHA says.

The first bill would create visas to employer nurses in shortage areas, while the second would establish new grant programs.