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S 1532 116th Congress Senate Health Congressional oversight Drug therapy Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government studies and investigations Health care costs and insurance Inflation and prices Medicaid Medicare Prescription drugs

Pharmacy Benefit Manager Accountability Study Act of 2019

Introduced: May 16, 2019 Introduced by: Blackburn, Marsha Republican · Tennessee See on congress.gov
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May 16, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
May 16, 2019
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Pharmacy Benefit Manager Accountability Study Act of 2019

This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to report on the role of pharmacy benefit managers in the pharmaceutical supply chain and recommend legislative actions to lower the cost of prescription drugs.

What's happening now May 16, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1532: Pharmacy Benefit Manager Accountability Study Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1532/
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"S. 1532: Pharmacy Benefit Manager Accountability Study Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1532/.
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S. 1532, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1532/.
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