{"id":23753,"date":"2024-12-16T08:59:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23753"},"modified":"2024-12-16T08:59:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:59:54","slug":"lawmakers-probe-cvs-caremark-over-potential-anti-competitive-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23753","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers probe CVS Caremark over potential anti-competitive practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Alexandra Murphy for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>House Republicans are investigating whether CVS Caremark, a leading pharmacy benefit manager, violated federal antitrust laws by allegedly blocking independent pharmacies from using cost-saving tools outside of its network, The Hill reported Dec. 12.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/legal-regulatory-issues\/lawmakers-probe-cvs-caremark-over-potential-anti-competitive-practices.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/legal-regulatory-issues\/lawmakers-probe-cvs-caremark-over-potential-anti-competitive-practices.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" class=\"wp-image-8962\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Alexandra Murphy for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) House Republicans are investigating whether CVS Caremark, a leading pharmacy benefit manager, violated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,10,15],"tags":[1632,1032,510],"class_list":["post-23753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-insurance","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-anti-competitive-practices","tag-congressional-probe","tag-pbm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23754,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753\/revisions\/23754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}