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CT Senate Passes Sweeping Consumer Protection Bill The Connecticut Senate passed an expansive consumer protection bill ( SB 5 ). Among other things, the measure would require service providers such as...
Social Media Warning Label Legislation Catching on in States Although Congress hasn’t responded to former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s call last June to take up legislation requiring...
OR Lawmakers Pass Age Discrimination Bill Oregon’s legislature passed a bill ( HB 3187 ) that would prohibit an employer from requesting an applicant’s age, date of birth or date of graduation...
WI Assembly Passes Multiple Healthcare Bills Wisconsin’s Assembly passed multiple healthcare-related bills with broad bipartisan support. One ( AB 43 ) would allow pharmacists to prescribe birth...
A nightmare may be coming to life for social media companies in Minnesota. There, Democrats in the state Legislature have embraced a pioneering bill, SB 3197 , which seeks to levy the nation’s...
After passing pharmacy benefit manager regulations last year, Iowa lawmakers are considering a pair of bills (HSB 99 and SSB 1074) that would require all prescription drug contracts to use a pass-through pricing model, in which PBMs charge employers, insurers or other plan sponsors the same amount the PBMs paid the supplying pharmacies, and PBMs are compensated only through administrative fees. The measure would also prohibit PBMs from limiting consumers from using a pharmacy of their own choice. (CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Mississippi’s House approved a bill (HB 1123) aimed at stopping spread pricing, in which PBMs charge insurers a higher amount than the rate the PBMs negotiated for a prescription. The measure would also require PBMs to disclose any pharmacy ownership they have. (MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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