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Labor Department finalizes pharmacy benefit manager disclosure rule

Opposing the rule on behalf of PBMs

For years, employers could not see how much of their workers' drug spending their pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) kept through rebates and fees. On October 29, the Labor Department finalized a rule requiring those middlemen to disclose their compensation to large self-insured employers.

Updated Nov 1

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It is a solution in search of a problem.

from Labor Department finalizes pharmacy benefit manager disclosure rule · Updated Nov 1

Full PBM transparency is also now federal law, following the enactment of sweeping PBM reform earlier this year. Drug-by-drug, claim-by-claim, pharmacy-by-pharmacy transparency is already law. All of this has long made the DOL's desire to create another reporting system unnecessary, redundant, and extraordinarily burdensome, particularly for smaller PBMs.

from Labor Department finalizes pharmacy benefit manager disclosure rule · Updated Nov 1