Lobbying Intense in Fight over PBM Provision of Spitzer Reforms

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe nation's pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are weighing in on legislation that would repeal a key section of the New York workers' compensation reforms signed into law by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer in 2007.Express Scripts, the nation's largest PBM, is running radio advertisements throughout much of New York state calling on lawmakers to defeat Assembly 5183 and Senate 3749. The bills would allow injured workers to use the pharmacy of their choice as long as that pharmacy limits prices to the fee schedule published by the New York State Wor...