Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, sits next to Senate HELP Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., Tuesday at a committee organizational business meeting, with an aide looking on. Credit: Senate HELP

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will continue to fight for pharmacy benefit manager oversight legislation in the coming year and may focus more on benefits access for independent contractors.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. — Senate HELP's new chairman — listed those as health policy priorities Tuesday during a committee organizational meeting.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.

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