{"id":284,"date":"2026-07-23T15:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/?p=284"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:35:17","slug":"florida-attorney-general-opens-investigation-into-pbm-and-pharmacy-parent-company-over-alleged-anticompetitive-pharmacy-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2026\/07\/23\/florida-attorney-general-opens-investigation-into-pbm-and-pharmacy-parent-company-over-alleged-anticompetitive-pharmacy-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Attorney General Opens Investigation into PBM and Pharmacy Parent Company Over Alleged Anticompetitive Pharmacy Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/christopherhcasey.html\">Christopher H. Casey<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jonathanlswichar.html\">Jonathan L. Swichar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/bradleyawasser.html\">Bradley A. Wasser<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/kirkwilliamsmcleod.html\">Kirk Williams McLeod<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 23, 2026, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a civil investigative demand to CVS Health Corporation, the parent company of both the Caremark pharmacy benefit manager and hundreds of CVS retail pharmacies in Florida, opening a civil investigation into alleged anticompetitive and unfair pharmacy practices. The investigation is the latest in a wave of state and federal actions targeting the vertically integrated business models of the nation&#8217;s largest PBMs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/florida_attorney_general_opens_investigation_cvs_health_caremark_alleged_anticompetitive_0726.html\">Read the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christopher H. Casey,\u00a0Jonathan L. Swichar,\u00a0Bradley A. Wasser and\u00a0Kirk Williams McLeod On June 23, 2026, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a civil investigative demand to CVS Health Corporation, the parent company of both the Caremark pharmacy benefit manager and hundreds of CVS retail pharmacies in Florida, opening a civil investigation into alleged anticompetitive and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2026\/07\/23\/florida-attorney-general-opens-investigation-into-pbm-and-pharmacy-parent-company-over-alleged-anticompetitive-pharmacy-practices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Florida Attorney General Opens Investigation into PBM and Pharmacy Parent Company Over Alleged Anticompetitive Pharmacy Practices&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,123,124],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antitrust","tag-pbms","tag-pharmacy-benefit-manager"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e1f720079bb9c5f7f3d02f11a102b31d50b9071b40283de6cf5ac7a5e6f35b7?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Davies","first_name":"Thomas","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}