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Congress Approves Spending Package Advancing Longstanding NABIP Healthcare Priorities
The reforms mandate prescription drug rebates be passed to health plans and enhance Medicare oversight to reduce costs and protect consumers from surprise bills.
- In Washington, the spending package enacted on Feb. 6, 2026, includes PBM transparency and Medicare reforms, aiming to improve healthcare oversight.
- Policy pressure from the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals prompted reforms to curb pharmacy benefit managers' practices that inflate drug costs and obscure coverage costs for employers and consumers.
- Requiring rebate pass-throughs, the package includes strengthened site-neutral payments, oversight of Medicare Advantage provider directories, and reinforces the No Surprises Act, according to the source.
- Licensed agents and brokers will gain clearer information as the reforms aim to protect consumers from surprise medical bills and give employers greater clarity into healthcare spending.
- Jessica Brooks Woods, CEO of NABIP, said the package is "a major policy win" and NABIP will "continue pressing policymakers to ensure these reforms are implemented as intended.
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Congress Approves Spending Package Advancing Longstanding NABIP Healthcare Priorities
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals (NABIP) today applauded Congress for approving a government spending package that includes several critical healthcare provisions NABIP has long championed to increase transparency, accountability, and affordability…
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