Andrew London, Partner, Foley Hoag LLP, and Peter Fjelstad, Assistant Vice President, State Regulatory and Legal Affairs, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, discuss the evolution of federal preemption of state health care laws, mainly pertaining to ERISA and Medicare, and the corresponding increase in state efforts to regulate the structure of health care benefits. They cover the 2020 Rutledge case, trends pertaining to state regulation of pharmacy benefit managers and Medicare Part C and D, issues related to conflicting state regulations, the impact of the fall of the Chevron doctrine, recent case law, the limits of federal-state partnerships, and how preemption will continue to evolve. Andrew and Peter spoke about this topic at AHLA’s 2024 Health Plan Law and Compliance Institute in Chicago, IL.Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Premium members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast. Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.

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