Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge added an impressive win to the list of her achievements when the Supreme Court ruled in her favor on Thursday, against the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association.
Craig Wilson, with the Arkansas Center for Health Improvements wrote in October: âThe Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, which is the national trade association for PBMs, maintains that federal law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA, preempts the 2015 Arkansas law, prohibiting the state from directly regulating how plans pay for benefits.â
Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion of the Court, in which all other members joined except Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.