Louisiana bans insurers from controversial ‘white bagging’ practice

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review)

A new law in Louisiana will bar health insurers from implementing a pharmacy policy known as “white bagging.”

White bagging is when health insurers don’t let providers procure and manage a drug for their patients, but rather require a third-party specialty pharmacy to dispense the drug to the provider.  Continue reading the article here…

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