Health Care

Drug price boards press forward after Colorado ruling casts doubt

A federal judge blocked the state’s cap on how much health plans can pay for Enbrel.
Bottles of medicine ride on a belt at a mail-in pharmacy warehouse in Florence, N.J., July 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

States are pushing ahead with drug payment caps despite a federal court ruling that cast doubt on their enforceability. 

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Daniel Domenico’s July 1 order temporarily blocked Colorado’s first-in-the nation cap on how much state-regulated health plans can pay for Enbrel, a high-priced prescription drug that treats chronic inflammatory and autoimmune conditions. 

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