Video & Transcript Research : 'pharmacy benefits'
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OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Business and Insurance 2ND REVISED Feb 26th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Business and Insurance
Transcript Highlights:
- That subject is pharmacy benefit managers.
- The first one is that no contract between the Oklahoma Employees Insurance and pharmacy benefit managers
- Referential favorable treatment to bidders whose pharmacy benefit managers do not own health insurance
- companies or retail pharmacy chains, special pharmacy businesses, mail order pharmacy businesses, or
- Pharmacies than the rural pharmacies.
Keywords:
prosthetics, health insurance, medical necessity, patient rights, insurance liability, pharmacy benefits manager, healthcare providers, claims processing, reimbursement, insurance regulation, employees insurance, contract awarding, certifications, state procurement, insurance plan, mental health, substance use disorders, utilization review, benefit coverage, pharmacy
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- It says that when a pharmacy fills a prescription, the pharmacy benefit manager needs to reimburse the
- That's on page four, where you say the pharmacy benefit manager shall bear all costs associated with
- It doesn't restrict the ability of any plan from any pharmacy benefit manager negotiations.
- This next line says a health insurer or pharmacy benefit manager may implement co-pay assistance.
- There's some instructions on how the pharmacy benefit manager should send the claim.
Keywords:
family leave, insurance, paid leave, employment benefits, caregiver support, liability insurance, coverage defenses, direct action, judgment enforcement, legal procedures, insurance referrals, compensation, non-licensed agents, consumer protection, insurance products, HB 870, Act 907, Louisiana insurance, health insurance, prescription drugs
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Health and Human Services Oversight Mar 4th, 2026 at 03:00 pm
Health and Human Services Oversight
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, House Bill 3538 is a bill to address the monopoly, the monopolistic practices of pharmacy benefit
- So, if the industry chooses to operate pharmacies, they can operate the Pharmacies if they choose to
- divest those pharmacies, they can divest those pharmacies.
- It's just with the pharmacies and them and being able to get a prescription through the pharmacy Act
- You don't want to have to worry about going downtown to another pharmacy if there's a pharmacy right
Bills:
HB3552, HB2984, HB4124, HB3934, HB3448, HB3131, HB4200, HB4201, HB3011, HB1912, HB3380, HB3881, HB3538, HB3851, HB3907, HB4430, HB4431, HB4457
Keywords:
childcare, differential pricing, Department of Human Services, child care subsidy, licensed providers, emergency legislation, child care, subsidy program, annual report, program integrity, overpayments, ivermectin, over-the-counter medication, pharmacy immunity, healthcare access, FDA approval, prescription, public health, dentistry, licensing
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Mar 4th, 2025
County and Municipal Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Okay, $152,153 for each state death benefit? Yes. $152,153 for each state death benefit? Yes, sir.
- the Board of Pharmacy.
- As a director of Pharmacy for Senior Care Pharmacy in Tuscaloosa, we serve long-term care and assisted
- All of the pharmacies servicing those settings are permitted by the board as retail pharmacies, and as
- Board of Pharmacy.
Keywords:
sales tax, use tax, sales and use tax, local tax exemption, county tax, municipal tax, county commission, municipality, Alabama Department of Revenue, tax exemption, ordinance, resolution, fiscal year, September 1 effective date, notice requirement, local government, tax administration, revenue law, state and local taxation, volunteer firefighters
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Feb 11th, 2026
Education Policy
Keywords:
sales tax exemption, Consumer Price Index, local government, clothing, school supplies, emergency preparedness, Alabama Administrative Procedure Act, APA, administrative law, judicial review, agency deference, Chevron deference, de novo review, contested case, state agency, regulatory power, individual liberty, statutory interpretation, rule interpretation, license revocation
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Public Health REVISION 2- HB1912 - Added - Part 2 Feb 18th, 2026 at 10:10 am
Public Health
Transcript Highlights:
- It's not a shall by the pharmacy. It's a bay, and we put language in there.
- ...ivermectin over the counter or dispensed by a pharmacy, even though the laws have been passed?
- They have about 30 pharmacies that are putting it on the counter.
- They couldn't control the medicine getting to that cancer center pharmacy and limit that.
- They couldn't control the medicine getting to that cancer center pharmacy and limit that.
Bills:
HB4336, HB1818, HB3194, HB3538, HB3682, HB3762, HB3793, HB3930, HB3931, HB3934, HB4124, HB4200, HB4410, HB4457, HB4473, HB3884, HB1912
Keywords:
interventional pain management, pain management clinic, chronic pain, acute pain, spinal injections, epidural steroid injection, peripheral nerve block, nerve ablation, spinal cord stimulator, intrathecal infusion pump, endoscopic diskectomy, fluoroscopy, physician supervision, allopathic physician, osteopathic physician, CRNA, certified registered nurse anesthetist, nurse anesthetist, freestanding pain management facility, medical licensure
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, House Bill 3538 is a bill to address the monopolistic practices within the pharmacy benefits
- The bill itself basically breaks up the vertical integration between a pharmacy benefits manager and
- There weren't any pharmacies closing. Pharmacies were opening.
- pharmacy, which is one of the largest mail order pharmacies in the country.
- So if there were pharmacies like... ...pharmacies like currently Caremark Specialty Pharmacy, where it's
Bills:
HB4336, HB1818, HB3194, HB3538, HB3682, HB3762, HB3793, HB3930, HB3931, HB3934, HB4124, HB4200, HB4410, HB4457, HB4473, HB3884, HB1912
Keywords:
interventional pain management, pain management clinic, chronic pain, acute pain, spinal injections, epidural steroid injection, peripheral nerve block, nerve ablation, spinal cord stimulator, intrathecal infusion pump, endoscopic diskectomy, fluoroscopy, physician supervision, allopathic physician, osteopathic physician, CRNA, certified registered nurse anesthetist, nurse anesthetist, freestanding pain management facility, medical licensure
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Mar 19th, 2025
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Many of you might have the benefits. Many of you might have the benefits.
- So many of the without benefit is. So many of the without benefit is.
- What a portable benefit is is for people What a portable benefit is is for people What a portable benefit
- So, this establishes a benefit packages. So, this establishes a benefit packages.
- So, I'm I'm is getting smaller benefits. So, I'm I'm is getting smaller benefits.
Keywords:
parental leave, state employees, local education agencies, adoption, work-life balance, family support, portable benefits, portable benefit account, independent contractor, gig worker, 1099 worker, freelancer, app-based worker, rideshare, delivery driver, worker benefits, health insurance, retirement benefits, life insurance, income replacement insurance
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Feb 26th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- significant time and resources to supporting members of the United States armed forces with no financial benefit
Bills:
SB1246, SB1510, SB1979, SB1929, SB1930, SB1976, HCR1019, SB1459, SB1673, SB1500, SB1447, SB1646, SB2007, SB1275, SB2074
Keywords:
environmental permitting, Oklahoma, Department of Environmental Quality, public participation, regulatory framework, administered applications, energy, wind energy, financial assurance, property restoration, environmental regulation, mining, blasting, residential protection, buffer zone, Department of Mines, public utilities, electric transmission lines, landowner rights, payment regulations
AL
Keywords:
salvage title, salvage certificate of title, rebuilt title, flood vehicle, junk vehicle, total loss, motor vehicle title, vehicle branding, insurance claim, insurance company, Department of Revenue, vehicle inspection, rebuilder, automotive dismantler, parts recycler, secondary metals recycler, junkyard, vehicle identification number, VIN, stolen vehicle
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Jan 14th, 2026
County and Municipal Government
Transcript Highlights:
- The amendment won't, but allows them to be full-time employees and get the benefits, etc.
- The amendment won't, but allows them to be full-time employees and get the benefits, etc.
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the be full-time employees and get the be full-time employees and get the benefits - 26:15.200>
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Bills:
HB117, HB17, HB22, HB153, HB140, HB117, HB17, HB22, HB153, HB140, SB12, SB42, SB93, SB28, SB35, SB134, SB12, SB42, SB93, SB28, SB35, SB134
Keywords:
procurement, county commission, administrative savings, public services, government efficiency, HB17, municipal audits, municipal audit clarification act, municipal finance, local government, city council, mayor, city manager, Department of Examiners of Public Accounts, independent public accountant, annual audit, biennial audit, annual report, financial accountability, public records
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- The state of Iowa conducted a pharmacy benefit manager.
- The state of Iowa conducted a pharmacy benefit manager reverse auction 25.
- I'm the Vice President of Pharmacy Benefit Administration, or PBA, Markets at Capital Rx.
- What we see as the role of a PBM is really to be the PBA, a pharmacy benefit administrator on behalf
- I am supporting HB 938 because Louisiana's patients need pharmacy benefit manager reform.
Keywords:
automobile repairs, insurance transparency, repair shop liability, non-OEM parts, policyholder rights, automobile insurance, appraisal process, insurance policyholders, dispute resolution, claim valuation, family leave, insurance, paid leave, employment benefits, caregiver support, behavioral health, crisis services, mental health care, insurance coverage, healthcare access
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Mail order, and specialty pharmacies.
- I'm from pharmacies in Gilmer, Texas.
- As the pharmacy benefit managers that are threatening the viability of the community pharmacy across
- Pharmacy benefit managers exploit their market power to strong-arm pharmacies in deceptive, non-negotiable
- , the pharmacy lost it all.
Keywords:
prescription drugs, drug pricing, pharmacy benefits, health insurance, health benefit plan, insurer, HMO, self-insured employer, public employer, school district, county, municipality, university system, higher education, retirees, dependent coverage, stop-loss coverage, bulk purchasing, group purchasing, purchasing pool
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- That brings us to our final continuation bill for the Pharmacy Board.
- Cam Gandhi, Executive Director of the Board of Pharmacy.
- Ajene, we're ready to go on to the second of the two Board of Pharmacy bills.
- Ajene, we're ready to go on to the second of the two Board of Pharmacy bills.
- The bill clarifies that pharmacies can deliver prescription medications.
Keywords:
nursing board, regulatory actions, disciplinary actions, expungement, healthcare professionalism, controlled substances, prescription monitoring, opioid crisis, healthcare regulations, patient safety, prescription drugs, opioids, healthcare, pain management, utilization controls, AHCCCS, Department of Economic Security, social services, welfare programs, vocational rehabilitation
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/25/2026 - Senate Health and Human Services
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Beginning July 1, 2027, practitioners and pharmacies must report additional data elements and submit
- Madam Chair, members, Cam Gano, the executive director of the Board of Pharmacy.
- Kinship care has strong, well-documented benefits for children, families, and communities.
- Madam Chair, members, House Bill 2733 makes various changes to the regulation of pharmacies.
- The bill permits businesses to continue operating under an existing board-issued pharmacy permit.
Keywords:
kinship care, child welfare, foster care, relative placement, child protection, vaccination mandates, mask requirements, public health, government entities, COVID-19, controlled substances, prescription monitoring, opioid crisis, healthcare regulations, patient safety, group homes, children's rights, safety protocols, employee training, mental health
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Health and Human Services REVISED Mar 2nd, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- So if someone just requests ivermectin at the pharmacy, they will be compelled to provide them with ivermectin
- in your explanation, and maybe I just misunderstood it, but you said if the deceased is receiving benefits
- How is the deceased person asking for benefits? Thank you for that question.
Bills:
SB1328, SB1380, SB1436, SB1558, SB1572, SB1651, SB1805, SB1831, SB1836, SB2014, SB2023, SB2044, SB2179, SB933
Keywords:
parents' rights, healthcare consent, minors, medical records, protection, legal guardianship, Medicaid, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, eligibility verification, death records, Death Master File, vital statistics, disenrollment, recoupment, improper payments, benefits integrity, public assistance, income verification, residency verification, incarceration status
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 19, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Welcome, everybody, to Labor, Health, um, day two on Senate File 121, the Wyoming Pharmacy Act amendments
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Page <00:03:23.519>four governing board of pharmacy. - Page four governing board of pharmacy.
- I've a number of times that the pharmacy I've a number of times that the pharmacy heard<00:08:05.280
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Act on Senate File 121, Wyoming Pharmacy Act on Senate File 121, Wyoming Pharmacy
Bills:
SF0121
Keywords:
pharmacy, collaborative care, healthcare, prescriptions, patient safety, Wyoming Pharmacy Act, 916, all
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services (Part I) Mar 5th, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- benefit managers. overreach.
- and operating the pharmacies that are in direct competition.
- With American Pharmacies. Welcome. Yeah, thank you, Chair Cole-Kors.
- pharmacies across the country, including several hundred in Texas.
- PBMs, they own pharmacies too, they're competing with independent pharmacies.
Keywords:
SB 502, Texas peace officers, Health and Human Services Commission, HHSC Office of Inspector General, OIG investigators, law enforcement classification, Schedule C, state employee benefits, injury benefits, peace officer status, commissioned officers, state auditor classification, Government Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, human services, health and human services, law enforcement compensation, public employee benefits, Texas state law enforcement, child welfare
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services (Part II) Mar 5th, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- benefit manager and... ...vertically integrated specialty pharmacies.
- benefit managers (PBMs).
- This really restricts innovation and benefit design.
- That was how much the PBM paid its own pharmacy to dispense the... medication.
- They're the third-party benefit administrators for ERISA health care plans.
Keywords:
SB 502, Texas peace officers, Health and Human Services Commission, HHSC Office of Inspector General, OIG investigators, law enforcement classification, Schedule C, state employee benefits, injury benefits, peace officer status, commissioned officers, state auditor classification, Government Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, human services, health and human services, law enforcement compensation, public employee benefits, Texas state law enforcement, child welfare
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Cancer patients are forced to fill their medications through their insurance aligned pharmacy benefit
- manager and vertical vertically integrated specialty pharmacies.
- And really restricts innovation and benefit design.
- But for the fact That they are a benefit manager.
- They're the third-party benefit administrators for ERISA healthcare plans.
Keywords:
SB 502, Texas peace officers, Health and Human Services Commission, HHSC Office of Inspector General, OIG investigators, law enforcement classification, Schedule C, state employee benefits, injury benefits, peace officer status, commissioned officers, state auditor classification, Government Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, human services, health and human services, law enforcement compensation, public employee benefits, Texas state law enforcement, child welfare