Daily Archives: February 25, 2020

FIC: PBM Regulation Bill Now In Last Senate Committee

By:  Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel With Senators and the bill sponsor, Sen. Wright (R), expressing disappointment that the Senate PBM bill did not go further to regulate PBMs, the Senate moved their PBM bill out of its second (of three) committee on February 25, 2020 when the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human…

FIC: Consultant Pharmacists Scope Of Practice Expansion Closer To Passage

By:  Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 1094 expands the scope of practice for consultant pharmacists.  A similar bill passed the House last year, but died in the Senate when it was never heard in committee, presumably because the doctors opposed the bill.  This year, however, the pharmacists and doctors have worked together and have…