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Search Results: keywords:"pharmacy benefits managers"

H. R. 9096 — To establish pharmacy payment and reimbursement by pharmacy benefits managers; to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve prescription drug transparency; and for other purposes.
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July 23, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:2,594
H.R. 9096, the "Pharmacists Fight Back Act," aims to regulate how pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) pay pharmacies for prescription drugs under federal health care programs. The bill requires PBMs to reimburse pharmacies based on set rules and prohibits actions like...
Simple Explanation
H.R. 9096 is a bill that wants to make sure pharmacies get paid fairly by the middleman companies who help with prescription drugs. It aims to make drug prices clearer and stop these companies from being unfair to both the pharmacies and people buying medicine.
H. R. 6844 — To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from entering into contracts with PDP sponsors of prescription drug plans that have a contract with certain pharmacy benefits managers.
December 15, 2023
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:559
H.R. 6844, titled the “Ensuring PBM Competition Act,” aims to change the Social Security Act to prevent the Secretary of Health and Human Services from entering into contracts with companies that run prescription drug plans if those companies also have agreements with certain...
Simple Explanation
This bill wants to stop a kind of helper that manages how we get medicines from also owning drugstores because that could be unfair. They want this rule to start in a few years, but the person in charge can wait a little longer if needed.

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