Lawmakers want Indiana to own its own pharmacy benefit manager for state plans like Medicaid
Pharmacy benefits managers, or PBMs, are meant to act as a middleman between drug manufacturers and insurance companies, with the goal of lowering prices.
Pharmacy benefit manager reform bill advances for committee vote
The bill would allow pharmacies to decline dispensing prescriptions to people if that pharmacy would be reimbursed less than its acquisition cost for that drug.
Pharmacy Day at Iowa Capitol saw lawmakers advance PBM reform
An Iowa bill looks to reform pharmacy benefit managers in the state and add new regulations for how they are able to operate.
Bill in Iowa legislature proposes new rules for Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Pharmacists are praising a bill under consideration in the Iowa House and Senate that would set new restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs. Critics accuse PBMs of pocketing part of the money that should instead be reimbursing the pharmacies that fill prescriptions.
Iowa lawmakers target prescription drug prices, pharmacy reimbursements with 'PBM' bills
The bill's supporters framed it as part of the solution to addressing both high drug prices and slowing the pace of pharmacy closures in Iowa.
Iowa bill to regulate Pharmacy Benefits Managers
Iowa bill to regulate Pharmacy Benefits Managers
Iowa pharmacists ask lawmakers for action as more pharmacies close across the state
Iowa House and Senate lawmakers advanced House Study Bill 99 and Senate Study Bill 1074 through their respective subcommittees Wednesday. The bills aim to stop Pharmacy Benefit Managers or PBMs from giving pharmacies less money than it costs to fill prescriptions.
Pharmacists ask for lawmakers to pass bill regulating pharmacy benefit managers
The Iowa legislation would require PBMs to reimburse pharmacies for the national or Iowa average acquisition drug costs.
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