• videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month July 8, 2026 @ 1:00 PM E.T.
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
  • card_travel ERISA
  • schedule 90 minutes

Pharmacy Benefit Manager Contracting for Fully Insured and Self-Funded Group Plans

About the Course

Introduction

This CLE course will provide employee benefits counsel guidance on applicable rules and recent legislative developments on pharmacy benefit manager contracting and offer strategies negotiating and drafting pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) agreements for employee health plans. The panel will discuss the impact of recent legislation, how to maximize prescription coverage savings, draft agreements that guarantee transparency and plan sponsor oversight, and avoid hidden fees.

Description

Prescription drug expenses have increased more than any other healthcare category over the past 10 years. PBMs can help employers with self-funded plans control prescription costs, but PBM contracts must be carefully negotiated and drafted to protect the plan sponsor’s—rather than the PBM’s—interests.

Recent legislation provides a few provisions aimed at PBMs but proposed legislation for significant reform is pending to further transparency, fees, and other key items. Counsel must thoroughly understand the complexities of prescription drug pricing and PBM contracting to control costs, avoid hidden fees, and maximize prescription drug benefit performance.

Listen as our authoritative panel discuss recent developments for PBMs and offer strategies for negotiating and drafting PBM contracts. The panel will discuss how to maximize prescription coverage savings, draft agreements that guarantee transparency and plan sponsor oversight, and avoid hidden fees.

Presented By

Theresa C. Carnegie
Member
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC

Ms. Carnegie has extensive experience advising clients on all aspects of the pharmaceutical supply chain. Her practice involves advising industry stakeholders on a range of business, legal, transactional, and compliance matters. Ms. Carnegie combines her multilayered industry knowledge with a deep understanding of applicable federal and state legal frameworks, in particular federal and state fraud and abuse laws. She provides clients with strategic counseling and creative business modeling that considers legal restrictions and regulatory risk in light of innovation and business goals.

Lauren M. Moldawer
Member
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC

Ms. Moldawer's practice focuses on advising clients through complex health care transactions and regulatory matters. She has served as health care counsel on numerous private equity and strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations, and investments involving pharmacies, PBMs, physician practices, long-term care facilities, third party payors, value-based contracting entities, nurse staffing companies, and health care technology firms. Ms. Moldawer's deal work is complimented by her regulatory practice, which primarily focuses on advising pharmacies, PBMs, managed care organizations and other clients in the payor space. Drawing from her experience working for the Federal Coordinated Health Care Office (the “Duals Office”) within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), she is able to provide practical advice to clients on regulatory and compliance issues relating to Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D and Medicaid. Ms. Moldawer has advised clients on Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D applications, audit appeals, contract negotiations, Medicaid managed care RFPs, and payment issues.

Credit Information
  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Wednesday, July 8, 2026

  • schedule

    1:00 PM E.T.

I. Overview of PBM contracting

II. Impact of recent legislation

III. Selecting PBMs

IV. Negotiating agreements

V. Pricing and fees

VI. Monitoring PBMs

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • Ensuring flexibility to remain nimble in a rapidly changing marketplace
  • Avoiding drafting pitfalls that increase prescription benefit costs
  • Developing effective RFPs to compare and select PBMs
  • Conducting an audit of a PBM contract and benefit plan