{"id":24452,"date":"2025-06-02T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24452"},"modified":"2025-06-02T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:22:10","slug":"cvs-express-scripts-sue-over-arkansas-pbm-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24452","title":{"rendered":"CVS, Express Scripts sue over Arkansas PBM law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Alexandra Murphy for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CVS Health and Express Scripts, two of the nation\u2019s largest pharmacy benefit managers, have filed separate lawsuits challenging a new Arkansas law that restricts PBMs and their affiliated pharmacies from dispensing medications within the state.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/cvs-express-scripts-sue-over-arkansas-pbm-law\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/cvs-express-scripts-sue-over-arkansas-pbm-law\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8964\" style=\"width:104px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales.jpg 340w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\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) CVS Health and Express Scripts, two of the nation\u2019s largest pharmacy benefit managers,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19,15,1638],"tags":[238,665,65,1747],"class_list":["post-24452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-part-dprescription-drugs","category-pbms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-lawsuit","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-pbms-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24452","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=24452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24453,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24452\/revisions\/24453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}