Compliance

Employers should make sure they know who's responsible for paying the PBM noncompliance penalties, a compliance attorney says.

A new, bipartisan House bill might reduce the need for employers to ask the IRS for extensions.

Rep. Buddy Carter listed that as a priority at a briefing on enactment of the new employer PBM transparency mandate.

One part requires PBMs to send employer health plans detailed prescription benefits tracking information and for the plan fiduciaries to use the data to keep tabs on the benefits and on PBM compensation.

An Aon health benefits specialist predicts that employers will have to work harder to monitor their pharmacy benefit managers.

Mangione still faces a second-degree murder count and other charges in a separate case in New York state, where the death penalty is unconstitutional.