{"id":6920,"date":"2017-05-29T09:27:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T13:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6920"},"modified":"2017-05-29T09:27:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T13:27:30","slug":"appealing-drug-cost-transparency-in-little-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6920","title":{"rendered":"Appealing Drug Cost Transparency in Little Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association of Washington, representing the largest PBMs in the country, is appealing the March 1 decision by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian S. Miller of Little Rock, which upheld nearly all the components of Act 900 of 2015, which <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">requires PBMs to provide at or above cost reimbursements for generic drugs to pharmacies operating within their network to avoid pharmacies filling prescriptions at a financial loss. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasbusiness.com\/article\/117139\/different-drug-war-rages-over-savings-prescription-costs\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><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>The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association of Washington, representing the largest PBMs in the country, is appealing the March 1 decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6921,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions\/6921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}