SCOTUS Ruling on 340B Drug Pricing
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 1 in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Ass’n, 2 which supports the validity of state statutes that regulate reimbursement rates pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) pay to pharmacies. Specifically, the Supreme Court’s ruling upheld Arkansas’s Act 900 (the Act) 3 requiring PBMs to reimburse pharmacies at a rate equal to or greater than the pharmacies’ acquisition costs, concluding that the Act was not preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 4 even though it regulates the price at which PBMs must reimburse...
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