The South Carolina Pharmacy Services Administrative Organization license
Pharmacy Services Administrative Organization
Contracts with pharmacies and negotiates on their behalf with pharmacy benefits managers. South Carolina is one of two states here that license the pharmacy's side of that table as well as the payer's, Pennsylvania being the other, and it started doing so under Act No. 30 of 2023.
Course
None
This license has no pre-licensing course route.
Ways in
1
There is no state exam for this license.
Exam
n/a
Not required on any of the routes below.
Every way to qualify
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Route 1 Apply to the Director for the license
No state exam for this license
S.C. Code 38-71-2320(A)(1) forbids establishing or operating as a pharmacy services administrative organization for prescription drug coverage or benefits without the Director's license, and (A)(2) sets the same shape as the pharmacy benefits manager's: a form the Director prescribes, collecting the organization's details, its agent for service of process and everybody with management or control over it, against a fee the Director may set at up to $1,000 initially and $500 a year after. Regulation 69-78, effective 24 May 2024, supplies the licensing, reporting and activity standards, and Act No. 166 of 2024 removed the duty to act as a fiduciary to pharmacies from 38-71-2330(A)(1), replacing it with a duty to perform "exercising good faith and fair dealing". No examination and no course.
Read at scstatehouse.gov on 2026-08-20
South Carolina asks a pharmacy services administrative organization for an application form and a fee and gives no examination for it, so there is nothing for a school to sell.