In a decision handed down on March 19, 2009, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) won a multi-year battle in federal court when the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held that the Access Rx Act (the “Act”)1 “impermissibly intrudes upon a field exclusively reserved for federal regulation.”2 This court?s holding that the Act is preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) marks a departure from a First Circuit opinion upholding a nearly identical Maine statute in the face of a preemption challenge.3

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