The state of Vermont has passed a bill extending its prohibition on discrimination by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) against 340B covered entities, which was originally passed in June 2021 as part of the state’s 2022 budget.
The bill was quietly
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New York State Attorney General Letitia James today sued CVS Health for allegedly forcing the state’s 340B covered entities to use CVS’s 340B third party administrator Wellpartner as a condition for letting the entities contract with CVS retail and specialty
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California will start making its own insulin under a state budget bill Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed June 30.
The bill includes $50 million to develop three low-cost biosimilar insulin products and another $50 million for a California-based insulin-manufacturing facility.
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West Virginia has reinforced its groundbreaking 2019 law forbidding what providers say is pharmacy benefit manager discrimination against 340B covered entities.
An amendment passed in March that took effect June 10 clarifies that PBMs or other third-party payers may not require a
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Safety net healthcare providers increasingly have turned to the states to address challenges to the 340B program, 340B Report Publisher and CEO Ted Slafsky says in his latest column for medication management solutions company Omnicell.
“In just four years, an
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The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last week again asked a federal district court in Sacramento to dismiss a group of California health centers’ claims for relief over CMS’s approval of the state’s transfer of Medicaid managed
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has signed legislation prohibiting pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) discrimination against 340B covered entities and their contract pharmacies.
Hogan signed HB 1274 into law on May 16. It takes effect Oct. 1. The state House and Senate
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