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States Target School Cell Phone Use At least four states have banned or severely restricted the use of smart phones in schools in the current legislative biennium. Florida became the first state to do...
Compounded Weight-Loss Drugs Creating Headaches for State Regulators With popular weight-loss drugs like Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy in short supply, many doctors, pharmacies and other providers have...
In their seminal book on the American health care system, legendary investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele offered a disturbing metaphor for the illogical nature of medical pricing...
PA Lawmakers Pass Bill Regulating PBMs The Pennsylvania legislature passed a bill ( HB 1993 ) aimed at increasing oversight of pharmacy benefit managers. If signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), the measure...
In a sign of the times, states have begun pursuing bills that require disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence. In March, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed SB 149 , making the state the first...
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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