SB381

Provides for pharmacy benefit managers. (gov sig)

Introduced·2/27/26
Ment Text

Louisiana SB381 regulates pharmacy benefit managers by prohibiting certain practices and requiring specific actions.

Louisiana SB381 amends laws concerning pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). It prohibits PBMs from obtaining rebates on brand name drugs in exchange for not placing generic drugs on their formulary. The bill also mandates that PBMs provide a 60-day continuity-of-care period when a drug is removed from the formulary, allowing insureds to continue receiving the drug at the same cost. Additionally, PBMs are prohibited from requiring insureds to receive drugs manufactured by an affiliated manufacturer when a generic equivalent is available.

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Insurance Committee
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Calendar

Apr 1

9:00 AM

Senate Committee on Insurance

History

Mar 9

Senate

Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance.

Feb 27

Senate

Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance.