{"id":18297,"date":"2021-06-10T09:06:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18297"},"modified":"2021-06-10T09:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:06:44","slug":"louisiana-bans-insurers-from-controversial-white-bagging-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18297","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana bans insurers from controversial &#8216;white bagging&#8217; practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>A new law in Louisiana will bar health insurers from implementing a pharmacy policy known as &#8220;white bagging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White bagging is when health insurers don&#8217;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.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/louisiana-bans-insurers-from-controversial-white-bagging-practice.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Louisiana-state-flag.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18298\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Louisiana-state-flag-300x194.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Louisiana-state-flag-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Louisiana-state-flag.png 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A new law in Louisiana will bar health insurers from implementing a pharmacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18299,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18297\/revisions\/18299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}