Supreme Court Urged to Skip Review of Drug Benefit Middlemen Law

The US Supreme Court does not need to take up a federal appeals court’s rejection of an Oklahoma law regulating the work of pharmacy benefit managers because the Tenth Circuit settled the questions of the case, the industry’s lobby group argued in a Monday filing.

Oklahoma’s petition to the high court gives it the opportunity to hear a second high-profile case over states’ ability to regulate PBMs, which serve as intermediaries between insurance providers and drug companies. The Supreme Court previously upheld an Arkansas law in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, which expanded state authority by finding that ...