Insurance License Hub

The South Dakota Pharmacy Benefits Manager license

Pharmacy Benefits Manager

Administers the drug half of a health plan. South Dakota gave it its own chapter of the insurance code, and the Division lists it beside the third party administrator on the same page of licenses that are not producer licenses.

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

  1. Route 1 Apply to the Division

    No state exam for this license

    The license

    • A pharmacy benefits manager license under SDCL chapter 58-29E, Pharmacy Benefits Management. The Division publishes a license application requirement checklist and an additional information page for it.

    and the qualification

    • There is no examination and no pre-licensing course. Chapter 58-29G, Drug Discount Program Protections, sits beside it and regulates what a manager may do about 340B pricing rather than who may hold the license.

    SDCL chapter 58-29E. South Dakota licenses a pharmacy benefits manager, as thirty states here now do.

    Read at sdlegislature.gov on 2026-08-20

No national seller sells a course for this license. Aceable does not sell South Dakota at all. There is no examination and no course, and no seller offers a pharmacy benefits manager product in any state.