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GAO Releases Report on States’ Regulation of PBMs
19 Apr 2024 20:21 GMT
… (PBMs). Focusing on 5 states—Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Maine, and New … is their job to administer prescription drug benefits and help control costs.1 …
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Medicare Advantage plans come with advantages, pitfalls
19 Mar 2024 00:12 GMT
… B. Congress added a prescription drug benefit called Part D in 2003 … Medicare Advantage plan in Arkansas with 36% of the … Medicare Advantage plans operating in Arkansas, up from 40 just … with Medicare Advantage plans in Arkansas, the squawking will get …
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Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield providing emergency assistance to tornado victims in six-state region
17 Dec 2021 23:14 GMT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue … tornadoes tore through communities in Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois … or BlueAdvantage Administrators of Arkansas (who use its prescription drug benefits with CVS Caremark …
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High Court Lets 2015 Arkansas Law Regulating PBMs Stand
10 Dec 2020 19:41 GMT
… here.
"Today, Arkansas pharmacists join their colleagues … avoid any regulations around prescription drug benefits that will result in … ;
In a statement, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge … the oversight of the Arkansas Insurance Department, which …
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Justices hear Arkansas law on Rx benefits
07 Oct 2020 10:35 GMT
… administration have sided with Arkansas.
Only eight justices … of organizations.
The Arkansas Pharmacists Association, the … Americans rely on the prescription drug benefits PBMs administer, and … the oral arguments, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge …
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Judges question effort to tie work, Medicaid in Arkansas, Kentucky
12 Oct 2019 14:21 GMT
… Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and Kentucky drew skeptical … , she said.
Both Arkansas and Kentucky expanded their … start of the Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2006 as a … representing Medicaid recipients in Arkansas and Kentucky who successfully …
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The Latest on Drug Spending Arkansas Regulates Pharmacy Benefit Managers
16 Apr 2018 19:53 GMT
… (R) signed legislation that makes Arkansas the first state to regulate … , the third-party administrators of prescription drug benefits for insurance companies. The law …
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State Regulation of Pharmacy Benefit Managers: Tenth Circuit Holds That ERISA and Medicare Part D Preempt Key Parts of Oklahoma PBM Law
05 Sep 2023 21:45 GMT
… did not preempt an Arkansas law that governed PBM … since PBMs “predominate in the prescription-drug-benefits field” and “the vast … Rutledge, PCMA challenged an Arkansas law that governed PBM-pharmacy … in Rutledge. In Rutledge, Arkansas’ law increased costs and …
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Medicare Authorized To Begin Price Negotiation for 10 Costly Drugs
01 Sep 2023 00:49 GMT
… 2024, changes to Medicare’s prescription drug benefit are estimated to save approximately … Medicare Part D enrollees in Arkansas over $37 million.
For other …
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States start unwinding Medicaid
31 Mar 2023 14:49 GMT
… Messerly reports.
Five states — Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, New Hampshire and South … discounts with drugmakers and design prescription drug benefits for health plans. But what … those it greenlit in Arizona, Arkansas, Massachusetts and Oregon.
“Ten years …