Pharmacy Benefit Managers Balk at Rehearing Oklahoma Law Ruling

A 2019 Oklahoma law requiring pharmacy benefit managers to open their networks conflicts with US Supreme Court precedent and thus is invalid, the organization representing PBMs said in a federal appeals court filing.

The court should reject Oklahoma insurance commissioner Glen Mulready’s call for an en banc rehearing of an earlier decision, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association said in a brief filed Monday in the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

The August ruling from a three-judge panel trimmed portions of Oklahoma’s Patient’s Right to Pharmacy Choice Act, which would require pharmacy benefit managers to permit “any willing ...