Tucked in the Pa. state budget, a win for pharmacies looking for PBM regulation

This story was originally published by the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. Pennsylvania’s most recent state budget includes a number of policy provisions agreed to by negotiating lawmakers. One is aimed at helping pharmacies that say they have been arbitrarily prevented by a pharmacy benefit manager from accepting certain Medicaid plans. The new provision will require pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, to allow pharmacies that they previously ended contracts with to reapply to their networks after 1...