Hawaii Drug Pricing Lawsuit Targeting PBMs Gets Tossed by Judge

A federal judge dealt a blow to Hawaii’s litigation against the country’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers, dismissing the state’s lawsuit that argued the companies inflated the costs of insulin and other drugs.

Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi of the US District Court for the District of Hawaii on July 12 granted the motion to dismiss from CVS Health’s Caremark, UnitedHealth Group’s OptumRx, and Cigna Group’s Express Scripts. The ruling came during a video teleconference hearing with attorneys for the PBMs and Hawaii Attorney General Anne E. Lopez, who first filed the lawsuit in state court October 2023. ...