Texas could keep health insurers from making patients use insurer-owned PBMs

Pharmacists' success in the Lone Star State could set an example for other health care providers who are frustrated with ERISA preemption.

Texas could stop health insurers or other coverage issuers in the Lone Star State from requiring patients to use the carriers’ own pharmacy benefit managers.

Texas state Rep. Cody Harris, R-Palestine, Texas, last week introduced a bill that could prohibit a health insurer, a health maintenance organization or any other health benefit plan issuer with a financial interest in a PBM from requiring a plan participant to use the PBM.

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