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Congresswoman Harshbarger says Pharmacy Benefit Managers legislation requires CMS to bring transparency to deliberately opaque system scaring lobbyists away

Tennessee Congresswoman and Former Pharmacist Diana Harshbarger says at a news conference on reforms aimed at pharmacy benefit managers contained in a FY26 consolidated appropriations package passed by Congress the day before that this legislation required CMS to define and enforce what reasonable and relevant was, noting they threw a lot of terms around but never gave definitions, and this brought real transparency to a system that had been deliberately opaque, declaring you were an effective legislator when lobbyists saw you coming down the hall and turned around and went the other way.
Tennessee Congresswoman and Former Pharmacist Diana Harshbarger says at a news conference on reforms aimed at pharmacy benefit managers contained in a FY26 consolidated appropriations package passed by Congress the day before that this legislation required CMS to define and enforce what reasonable and relevant was, noting they threw a lot of terms around but never gave definitions, and this brought real transparency to a system that had been deliberately opaque, declaring you were an effective legislator when lobbyists saw you coming down the hall and turned around and went the other way.
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February 04, 2026
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