Ohio Sues Express Scripts, Cigna, Prime Therapeutics and Humana Calling PBMs “Modern Gangsters”

The complaint alleges multiple violations of the Valentine Act, Ohio’s antitrust law, which prohibits price fixing, controlled sales and other agreements that restrain trade and hurt competition. David Yost, the attorney general decried the practices of PBMs saying that they hurt everyday Ohioans dependent on life-saving drugs like insulin.