Spending Bill Tumult Leaves PBM Reform on Cutting-Room Floor

  • Dec 24, 2024

    In a development that sparked frustration among some industry stakeholders, an agreement to pass a government spending bill that contained significant PBM reforms collapsed late last week. Congress ultimately passed a pared-down spending bill just in time to avert a government shutdown, but that left PBM critics wondering when reform policies with bipartisan backing will ever make it into law.

    “Probably late Wednesday, it looked like it was in and a done deal, and then the entire package…fell apart,” lamented Joe Shields, managing director of Transparency-Rx.

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  • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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