Prescription Drugs & PDABs

Prescription drug pricing has been a concern of state lawmakers for years, and prescription drug affordability boards (PDABs) have emerged as a strategy to attempt to control costs for consumers. Eleven states have enacted PDABs or similar drug pricing committees. Statutes vary by state, but in general PDABs are tasked with evaluating and monitoring prescription drug costs in the state. Several PDABs are authorized to conduct affordability reviews on high cost prescription drugs and set upper payment limits (UPLs) on those drugs.

MultiState maintains an official PDABs monitoring apparatus, which will bring regular updates from PDAB meetings along with intel on which states might establish additional PDABs.