CVS, for example, operates a major network of retail pharmacies along with its PBM Caremark. If Arkansas’ law stands, the company would have to close its 23 pharmacies in the state, disrupting ...

Express Scripts and CVS Pharmacy — two of the three biggest U.S. pharmacy benefit managers — are suing to block an Arkansas law that forbids PBMs from owning pharmacies.

CVS, which operates both a PBM and 23 pharmacies in Arkansas, is pushing back. In court filings, ... CVS says if the law goes into effect as scheduled on January 1, 2026, ...

Litigation over state power to regulate pharmacy benefit managers is far from over, even after the US Supreme Court bolstered ...

CVS Health Corp. is crying foul after Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders signed a bill banning banning PBMs from having a financial interest in pharmacies in the state.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – CVS officials said a new law restricting Pharmacy Benefit Managers from owning pharmacies will result in the closure of more than 20 Arkansas pharmacies. Gov. Sarah Huckabee ...

On April 16, 2025, Arkansas enacted Act 624 (the Act), an unprecedented law prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from owning or operating pharmacies in the state. As we discussed in our ...

CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) and Cigna (NYSE:CI), which operate some of the largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the U.S., have sued Arkansas, seeking to block a state law that is set to ban PBMs ...

Supreme Court will review an Arkansas law governing pharmacy benefit managers. By Ed Silverman Jan. 11, 2020. Reprints. ... CVS Health, for instance, owns a PBM and pharmacies. advertisement.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders has signed a first-in-the-nation law that prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from operating both retail and mail-order pharmacies, a move designed to eliminate a ...