A federal district judge in Sacramento, Calif., is holding oral arguments next week in a lawsuit aimed at reversing the state’s January 2022 transfer of Medicaid managed care benefits to Medicaid fee for service.
Meanwhile, a bill was introduced
…Nevada lawmakers have unanimously passed and sent to the state’s governor legislation prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers and health insurance carriers from discriminating against 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies.
The state Assembly voted 42-0 on June 3 and the
…Connecticut will not, after all, be the first state to require 340B covered entities to file reports on their 340B program savings and how they use them, under a bill the state Senate gave final passage to late last night.
…Connecticut lawmakers are expected soon to pass a significantly revised version of Gov. Ned Lamont’s (D) health care cost reduction bill stripped of language that would have barred drug manufacturers from limiting use of contract pharmacies and imposing other conditions
…The Louisiana Senate voted unanimously Sunday to pass and send to Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) a bill prohibiting drug manufacturer limits on 340B contract pharmacy relationships and pharmacy benefit manager encroachment on health care providers’ 340B program revenues.
Edwards
…New York State is appealing a state trial court’s dismissal of its antitrust case against CVS Health that alleges the pharmacy giant unlawfully forces 340B covered entities to use its 340B third party administrator Wellpartner in order to contract with
…Companion bills in the Massachusetts House and Senate would restore the 340B program’s intent by stopping pharmacy benefit manager discrimination against any 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies, the sponsor of the state Senate bill said during a recent
…A New York state lawmaker and strong 340B program supporter last week introduced bills to help 340B providers hurt by the state’s transfer of Medicaid managed care drug benefits to Medicaid fee for service on April 1.
Under Medicaid managed
…A Louisiana Senate health committee yesterday passed a bill that will stop drug manufacturer interference with 340B contract pharmacy arrangements, rejecting an amendment that would have stripped the language from the measure.
HB 548, which also would prohibit pharmacy benefit
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