Author: John Dillon Harris, MPH
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Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMS): Policy Landscape and Potential Reforms | September 2025
To download the print-friendly version, click here. Table of Contents Background Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have grown and developed alongside the pharmaceutical manufacturing and health insurance industries, with the earliest versions of PBMs being founded by local groups of pharmacists. In 1958, Canada saw the creation of a prescription prepayment…
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State of Play: Status of the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Bill & Implications for HealthCare in Mississippi
To download the print-friendly version click here. INTRODUCTION House Concurrent Resolution 14 was passed by Congress on April 10, 2025. The resolution, which established the budget for Fiscal Year 2025 and set budgetary outlines for the next ten years, directed the House Energy and Commerce Committee to produce $880 Billion…
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Mississippi Medicaid and Potential Federal Reforms | Issue Brief 2025
The U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee has been tasked with reducing federal spending by $880 billion on programs under its jurisdiction, which includes Medicaid, between 2025 – 2034. Medicaid makes up 93% ($8.2 trillion) of the Committee’s $8.8 trillion mandatory program outlays(1). While these proposed Medicaid reforms are subject…
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Legislative Session 2023 Summary
A Review of Health-Related Bills & Their ImpactDuring the 2023 Legislative Session, the legislature focused on the state’s struggling healthcare system and the post-Roe world…
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Healthcare System Performance | 2022 Report
Mississippi Indicators And Healthcare InfrastructureThe Center for Mississippi Health Policy published a report, “Healthcare System Performance: Mississippi Indicators & Healthcare Infrastructure, Opportunities for Improvement in May 2022…