Category: State 340B PBM Legislation

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) signed legislation last week to protect 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies from discrimination by pharmacy benefit managers.

Legislative Bill 767 makes Nebraska the third known state to take such action this year.

The Virginia General Assembly has passed legislation to stop insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from discriminating against 340B grantee covered entities and their contract pharmacies. Hospitals would be excluded from protection.

Virginia health centers say Gov. Glenn Youngkin

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed three bills today that prohibit pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and insurance carriers from discriminating against 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies.

HB 4348 says PBMs and insurers shall not prohibit entities or

Montana has passed a law barring pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from excluding 340B contract pharmacies from participating in their networks.

SB 395, known as the Montana Pharmacy Benefit Manager Oversight Act, was signed into law last week by

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) has signed legislation prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from discriminating against 340B covered entities or their contract pharmacies.

Burgum’s approval of H.B. 1492 on April 21 made North Dakota one of six states

Arkansas’s and Indiana’s governors have signed bills in recent days to prevent pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from discriminating against 340B covered entities, and a similar bill is awaiting the Tennessee governor’s signature.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) signed his state’s