{"id":261,"date":"2026-07-23T16:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/?p=261"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:03:03","slug":"florida-attorney-general-examines-alleged-anticompetitive-pharmacy-practices-by-pbm-parent-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/2026\/07\/23\/florida-attorney-general-examines-alleged-anticompetitive-pharmacy-practices-by-pbm-parent-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Attorney General Examines Alleged Anticompetitive Pharmacy Practices by PBM, Parent Company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/christopherhcasey.html\">Christopher H. Casey<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jonathanlswichar.html\">Jonathan L. Swichar<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/bradleyawasser.html\">Bradley A. Wasser<\/a> and&nbsp;<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,&nbsp;Jonathan L. Swichar,&nbsp;Bradley A. Wasser and&nbsp;Kirk 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\/stateattorneysgeneral\/2026\/07\/23\/florida-attorney-general-examines-alleged-anticompetitive-pharmacy-practices-by-pbm-parent-company\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Florida Attorney General Examines Alleged Anticompetitive Pharmacy Practices by PBM, Parent Company&#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":[95,94,114,115,116],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antitrust","tag-attorney-general","tag-florida","tag-james-uthmeier","tag-pbm"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}