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MN Considering Taxing Social Media Apps Minnesota’s Senate Taxes Committee heard a bill ( SB 3197 ) last week that would make the state the first in the nation to tax social media apps. The measure...
AR Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning PBMs from Running Pharmacies The Arkansas legislature passed a bill ( HB 1150 ) that would make the state the first in the nation to prohibit pharmacy benefit managers...
The days of simply setting a price for goods or services and waiting for customers to accept it are gone. Thanks to predictive pricing , businesses of all sorts can now use data analytics, machine learning...
‘Predictive Pricing’ Top Priority for CA Lawmakers Predictive pricing, a practice involving the use of artificial intelligence to set prices for customers based on factors like the websites...
Patchwork of Paid Leave Laws Set to Continue There’s currently no federal law requiring paid leave. The federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 only requires employers to provide unpaid time...
Georgia lawmakers gave final approval for a bill (HB 1339) aimed at expanding health care coverage for lower-income individuals, sending the measure to Gov. Brian Kemp (R). Among other things, the bill would eliminate the certificate-of-need requirement for hospitals that open in rural communities where former hospitals have been shut down for a year or more. But the House rejected some of the changes made to the measure in the Senate, such as those allowing outpatient surgery centers that serve multiple medical specialties and new imaging centers operate without a certificate-of-need permit.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) filed a lawsuit alleging drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers conspired to inflate the price of insulin. Similar lawsuits have been filed by AGs in Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota and Mississippi. (INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE, NOLA)
New Hampshire’s House narrowly passed legislation (HB 1283) that would allow individuals with less than six months to live to obtain access to drugs to end their lives. The measure now moves to the Senate. (WMUR, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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