The injunction is a loss for Gov. Sarah Sanders and a win for CVS, which previously said the state law likely would have ...

A federal judge has blocked a new Arkansas law that would have prohibited pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs—middlemen ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked on Monday Arkansas' first-in-the-nation law that would have prohibited pharmacy benefit ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a first-in-the-nation law that would prohibit companies that own PBMs from also ...

Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders — a former top lieutenant to Donald Trump — is leading a charge against big pharmacy ...

The plaintiffs, which include PBM affiliates of CVS Health and UnitedHealth as well as Cigna, argue that the Arkansas law ...

For now, the law is on hold. CVS is still in business in Arkansas, and still reimbursing both itself and its competitors.

This story was updated at 11:18 a.m. on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 to include a statement from The Cigna Group. A federal judge ...

A federal court has halted implementation of controversial Arkansas legislation following legal challenges from a major ...

The Arkansas law would have barred companies that own PBMs from also holding a pharmacy license. It had been set to take ...

Following a review of briefs and a hearing, the preliminary injunction was granted, barring Arkansas Act 624 from taking effect.