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Insurance Bill Raises Concerns in FL A fast-moving bill ( SB 1028 ) in Florida, sponsored by Sen. Joe Gruters (R), chairman of the Senate’s Banking and Insurance Committee, would require Citizens...
MS House Passes PBM Reform Bill Mississippi’s House of Representatives passed a bill ( HB 1665 ) that would prohibit pharmacy benefit managers from employing clawbacks when patients’ copayments...
In June, Kansas became the 37th state to offer tax incentives to data centers, underscoring how the massive warehouse-like facilities that support the internet have become a priority for states and state...
States Target Sale of Consumer Geolocation Data Virginia’s Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology advanced a bill ( SB 338 ) that would amend the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act...
States Easing Up on Certificate of Need Laws Over a dozen states have introduced or are considering legislation this year to scale back their certificate of need (CON) laws requiring healthcare providers...
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Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are companies that contract with health insurers and employers to manage the prescription drug benefits for millions of Americans. They function as third-party administrators of prescription drug coverage, providing a wide variety of services that range from negotiating prices with drug companies to processing claims from insureds.
By late-2023, all 50 states had passed at least some legislation to regulate PBMs, according to the National Academy for State Health Policy. Most of these laws brought PBMs under state regulatory authority and established some basic regulatory framework for their operations. But the heat was turned up over the past year.
In August 2024 the State Net Capitol Journal™ reported that more than 100 bills dealing substantively with PBMs had been considered in 26 states at that point of the 2023-2024 legislative biennium, and at least 13 of those measures had been enacted
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