Employers warn Senate plan to raise Mississippians’ drug prices will cost dearly - Mississippi Monitor

Employers warn Senate plan to raise Mississippians’ drug prices will cost dearly - Mississippi Monitor

By Russ Latino, Magnolia Tribune     “This is not PBM reform. It’s a tax increase on every Mississippian.” That’s how one of Mississippi’s largest employers summed up the Senate’s changes to HB 1665 in a conversation with Magnolia Tribune on Wednesday. Two other employers, speaking on the condition of anonymity, shared with us their benefits teams’ calculation of the effect of the Senate’s plan to create an $11.29 dispensing fee on every prescri…