The Oklahoma State Senate and House overrode a veto by Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) of HB 1843, which is legislation to move PBM enforcement authority from the Office of the Insurance Commissioner to the Attorney General. Because the override coincided with Commissioner Glen Mulready’s scheduled hearing with an administrative law judge about his work to censure, suspend, place on probation, or revoke the PBM license of CVS Caremark, the hearing has now been postponed until November, when Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is expected to take on the matter. To stoke progress, NCPA recently concluded a digital advertising campaign in Oklahoma aimed at supporting the Commissioner Mulready’s fight with CVS, which thanked lawmakers for their passage of key PBM reform legislation and urged them to support the Mulready’s actions.
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