A federal court has placed an injunction on an Arkansas law preventing Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) from owning pharmacies, citing the Commerce Clause and TRICARE prescription claims as reasons why the law is preempted by federal law.

A federal judge has blocked implementation of a state law prohibiting out-of-state pharmacy benefits managers from operating pharmacies inside the state of Arkansas that was to go into effect in January.

A U.S. federal court judge has blocked first-of-its-kind legislation enacted in Arkansas to ban pharmacy benefit managers ((PBMs)) from owning or operating pharmacies in the state starting next year.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a first-in-the-nation law that would prohibit companies that own PBMs from also operating both retail and mail-order pharmacies in Arkansas.