2014 Senate Bill 1002

Impose more regulation on “pharmacy benefits managers”

Introduced in the Senate

June 12, 2014

Introduced by Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker (R-20)

To prohibit various practices by pharmacy benefit managers, including requiring or incentivizing a covered individual to use a specific retail or mail-order pharmacy in which the PBM has an ownership interest; excluding a pharmacy willing to accept the PBM’s terms from its network; and more. See also Senate Bill 999.

Referred to the Committee on Insurance