California Doctors Target Health Insurers Over Specialty Drugs

California doctors are lobbying state lawmakers to ban health insurance plans from requiring their patients to get injectable drugs from mail-order pharmacies owned by the carriers.

Physician groups want to allow their patients to get such drugs from their doctors, or a hospital pharmacy. The groups are backing legislation (AB 577) that targets the practice by insurers and their related pharmacy benefit managers, which negotiate prices with drugmakers and manage prescription benefits for employers.

The push is the latest in a battle stretching from the California legislature to the US Congress pitting pharmaceutical manufacturers and doctors against insurers. …

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