{"id":265,"date":"2026-09-03T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/?p=265"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:25:36","slug":"state-attorneys-general-file-suit-against-pbms-alleged-price-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/2026\/09\/03\/state-attorneys-general-file-suit-against-pbms-alleged-price-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"State Attorneys General File Suit Against PBMs Based on Alleged Price-Fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jonathanlswichar.html\">Jonathan L. Swichar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/sheilarafterywiggins.html\">Sheila Raftery Wiggins<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/bradleyawasser.html\">Bradley A. Wasser<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two recent cases filed by state attorneys general allege collusion and fixing reimbursement rates among pharmacy benefit managers, following on a trend of states asserting violations of antitrust laws. On August 27, 2026, the Florida Office of the Attorney General filed a lawsuit against two PBMs for allegedly colluding in December 2019 to fix the price of reimbursement rates provided to Florida retail pharmacies. And on August 31, 2026, Louisiana\u2019s Office of the Attorney General filed a similar lawsuit alleging unlawful fixed reimbursement rates to independent pharmacies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/state_attorneys_general_file_suit_against_pbms_based_alleged_price_fixing_0926.html\">Read the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan L. Swichar,\u00a0Sheila Raftery Wiggins and\u00a0Bradley A. Wasser Two recent cases filed by state attorneys general allege collusion and fixing reimbursement rates among pharmacy benefit managers, following on a trend of states asserting violations of antitrust laws. On August 27, 2026, the Florida Office of the Attorney General filed a lawsuit against two PBMs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/2026\/09\/03\/state-attorneys-general-file-suit-against-pbms-alleged-price-fixing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;State Attorneys General File Suit Against PBMs Based on Alleged Price-Fixing&#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":[],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"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\/265","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=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}