On August 15, 2023, the Tenth Circuit issued its much-anticipated decision in PCMA v. Mulready, rejecting Oklahoma’s position that its pharmacy network requirements were not preempted by ERISA.[1] See ...

On May 31, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit published an opinion in Bristol SL Holdings Inc. v. Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co., which has significant implications for the ...

* The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) limits the ability of states to regulate many employer-sponsored health insurance plans for the purpose of avoiding duplicative or ...

One of the original policy objectives of ERISA was to regulate employee benefit plans at the federal level so that these plans would: Be governed by a uniform body of federal laws. Not be subject to a ...

Thanks to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), millions of American workers and their families have enjoyed high-quality, employer-provided retirement and health benefits for ...

A panel discussion at the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) Payer Exchange Summit highlighted the tension between state regulation of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and the Employee Retirement ...

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, is turning 50 this year and lawmakers are curious to hear about how the law could be updated to increase coverage affordability and care access.

On October 16th, the Public Policy Program hosted Dr. Miranda Yaver for a lecture titled Justice Denied: The Legal Architecture of Health Insurance Inequity. Dr. Yaver is an Assistant Professor of ...

In part two, I outlined the legal argument for enlisting the fiduciary framework of ERISA (the Employment Retirement Income Security Act) to strengthen the enforcement and effectiveness of price ...