Pharmacists respond to PCMA’s amicus brief on states’ authority to regulate PBMs

March 25, 2020 by Chain Drug Review and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), Pharmaceutical Care Management Association’s (PCMA) amicus brief, the Arkansas Pharmacists Association (APA), The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) Pharmacy

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), the Arkansas Pharmacists Association (APA), and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA)  responded to the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association’s (PCMA) amicus brief which opposes states’ rights to regulate pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) in Rutledge v. PCMA. In their amicus brief, PCMA opposes the contention that preemption applies only when a plan