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Senators, advocates push bills to broaden which pharmacies can dispense specialty medicines
Summary
Legislators and advocates told the committee specialty drugs are being steered to PBM‑owned or mail‑order pharmacies, creating access barriers that bills before the committee aim to address by authorizing more pharmacists and pharmacies to dispense specialty medicines.
Senators and advocates testified that patients face delays accessing high‑cost, complex specialty medications because of pharmacy benefit manager and insurer practices that funnel prescriptions to a narrow set of pharmacies.
"This bill would prohibit insurance carriers from not dispensing specialty drugs to patients by a non‑network pharmacy as long as the pharmacy is able to fulfill the special handling, administration and monitoring requirements of the drug,"…
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