340B Patient Definition Check
Whether a person is a 340B patient for a prescription.
Open the tool → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Covered entity kind
- Grantee or look-alike (health center, Ryan White and others)
- The entity keeps the person's health care records
- Yes
- Prescriber employed by the entity or under its arrangement
- Yes
- Grantees
- Yes
- Dispensing is the only service the entity provides the person
- No
Result: A 340B patient for this prescription: every applicable part of the 1996 patient definition is met (61 FR 55156).
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What you enter
- Covered entity kind
- The entity keeps the person's health care records
- Prescriber employed by the entity or under its arrangement
- Grantees: the care is within the grant scope
- Dispensing is the only service the entity provides the person
How this is calculated
Citation
HRSA, 340B patient and entity eligibility notice (61 FR 55156, October 24, 1996): the entity keeps the records of care; care is by its professional or under an arrangement keeping responsibility with it; grantee care within grant scope; not dispensing alone. Read the source ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.