An Arkansas law regulating pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) generic drug reimbursement rates, and affecting the cost of prescription drugs provided under ERISA-governed benefit plans and the administration of those plans, is not preempted by ERISA, the U.S. Supreme Court has held unanimously. Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, No. 18-540, 2020 U.S. LEXIS 5988
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U.S. Supreme Court to Hear the First of Several ERISA Disputes This Term
By Lindsey H. Chopin & Stacey C.S. Cerrone on
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Certiorari, ERISA, PBM, Peemption, pharmacy benefit Manager, Supreme Court, TPA
The Supreme Court, whose new term begins today, the first Monday in October, will consider a number of cases impacting employee benefits and benefits litigation. This is the first in a series analyzing these cases as they are heard by the Court. The first issue up concerns prescription drug benefit regulation, and later in the…