
The Policy Trends the Business Group on Health Is Watching
The Business Group on Health is paying attention to Medicaid cuts, tariffs, threats to ERISA and more.
The Business Group on Health is paying attention to Medicaid cuts, tariffs, threats to ERISA and more.
A trade association for PBMs says that state PBM regulations in Oklahoma are preempted by federal ERISA and Medicare regulations.
In an exclusive interview, an attorney at McDermott Will & Emery's Post-Roe practice group answers questions about how Texas' trigger ban laws will impact employers, whether HIPAA protections apply to abortion access and the latest in Washington on rulemaking to strengthen ERISA preemption defense.
In his decision, U.S. District Judge John Bates called the policy an "end-run" around the patient protections and regulations established with the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
The case alleges that insured workers paid too much because Express Scripts charged “above competitive pricing levels” and Anthem, in effect, allowed those higher prices as part of a 10-year contract deal with the PBM, in violation of ERISA.