FRANKFORT – (KT) Attorney General Russell Coleman has issued a formal opinion affirming that a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform law passed by the 2024 General Assembly is enforceable to protect Kentucky patients and pharmacies.

Senate Bill 188, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Max Wise, R-Campbellsville, passed the Senate 35-1 and the House 97-0 before being signed into law. It was designed to crack down on PBM practices that steer patients to affiliated pharmacies and extend fair-market protections to the commercial market. It built on Wise’s 2020 reforms in Senate Bill 50, which created a single state-managed PBM for Medicaid and banned spread pricing, steering and hidden fees.

In February, the Beshear Administration’s Department of Insurance claimed portions of the law were u

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