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Recent Action in Pharmaceuticals
Introduced: 2024 Status: Enacted
This bill relates to pharmacy benefits and regulations for Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) in Oregon. The act requires PBMs to be licensed and alters the definition of a PBM. It modifies the way PBMs can …
HB 4028 – Oregon
Introduced: 2024 Status:
This bill is related to health care and specifically addresses the issue of drug accessibility in Oregon. The bill has two major components. Firstly, the bill restricts the actions of drug manufacturers by preventing them …
SB 228 – Florida
Introduced: 2024 Status:
Health Insurance Cost Sharing: Defining the term “cost-sharing requirement”; requiring specified individual health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the total contributions of the insureds’ …
HB 363 – Florida
Introduced: 2024 Status:
Health Insurance Cost Sharing: Requires specified individual health insurers, group insurers, HMOs & their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments of prescription drugs by or on behalf of insureds & subscribers toward total contributions of …
SB 1608 – Florida
Introduced: 2024 Status:
Prohibiting certain actions by health insurance issuers, pharmacy benefit managers, or other third-party payors, or their agents, relating to reimbursement to a 340B entity for 340B drugs; prohibiting certain actions by manufacturers relating to interference …
SB 100 – Wyoming
Introduced: 2024 Status: Enacted
AN ACT relating to the insurance code; providing regulations for payment of claims from insurers or the insurer’s intermediary to pharmacies; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; providing applicability; and providing for effective dates.
HB 165 – New Mexico
Introduced: 2024 Status: Enacted
An act relating to pharmaceutical drugs; requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse community-based pharmacy providers for the full cost of prescription drugs plus a professional dispensing fee; requiring the health care authority department to …
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District Court: District of Delaware Status: Decided
On February 7, 2017, the FTC filed a complaint against Shire ViroPharma, alleging that the pharmaceutical company engaged in unfair method of competition and violated …
Walgreen Co. et al v. Allergan, Inc – New York
District Court: Eastern District of New York Status: Pending
Four drug retailers, including Walgreens and Albertsons, filed an antitrust suit alleging that Allergan devised and carried out a multifaceted and anticompetitive scheme to maintain …
PhRMA v. David – California
District Court: Eastern District of California Status: Decided
PhRMA challenged California’s drug price transparency law SB 17 alleging that the law is unconstitutional because it violates the Commerce Clause, the First Amendment, and …
Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) v. Rutledge – Arkansas
District Court: Eastern District of Arkansas Status: Decided
Act 900 (SB 688), enacted in 2015, required disclosure of generic drug pricing and sets a floor on prices that PBMs can pay to pharmacies …
In re Express Scripts/Anthem ERISA Litigation – New York
District Court: Southern District of New York Status: Pending
The district court dismissed a proposed class action against Anthem Inc. and Express Scripts Inc. over drug pricing methods, holding that the companies can’t be …
Alcon Labs., Inc. v. Cottrell – New Jersey
District Court: District of New Jersey Status: Decided
Consumers brought putative class action against manufacturers and distributors of prescription eye medication, alleging they packaged medication in such a way as to force consumers …
Drogueria Betances LLC v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. – New York
District Court: Southern District of New York Status: Pending
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. allegedly agreed with Par Pharmaceuticals Inc. to squelch generic competition to Novartis’s hypertension drug Exforge, resulting in buyers paying millions more than …
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News & Opinions
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Trends in Pharmaceuticals
State Pharmaceutical Legislation
Click on highlighted states to see all legislative action to regulate pharmaceutical price and competition in the 2019 session. Click to see 2018 trends for a side-by-side comparison.
2019 Drug Pricing Transparency Legislation
Pharmaceutical price transparency legislation requires disclosures from drug manufacturers and insurers to help lawmakers and the public better understand how drugs are priced and how those prices affect insurance premiums. Click to see 2018 trends for a side-by-side comparison.
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2019 Pharmaceutical Rate-Setting Legislation
Rate setting legislation either establishes the price of a prescription drug or sets the maximum amount a payer can pay for a drug. Click on highlighted states to see rate-setting legislation considered or enacted in the 2019 session. Click to see 2018 trends for a side-by-side comparison.
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2019 Drug Importation Legislation
Click on highlighted states to see drug importation legislation considered or enacted in the 2019 session. Click to see 2018 trends for a side-by-side comparison.
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2019 Drug Price Gouging Prohibition Legislation
Price gouging prohibitions typically empower the state Attorney General to act if the price of a drug is raised above a threshold. Click on highlighted states to see legislation considered in the 2019 session. Click to see 2018 trends for a side-by-side comparison.
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2019 Pharmacy Benefit Manager Regulation Legislation
Legislation to regulate Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) typically include provisions that 1) require PBMs to register with the state, 2) mandate disclosures by PBMs, or 3) prevent PBMs from incentivizing the use of mail-order pharmacies. Click to see 2018 trends for a side-by-side comparison.
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