BATON ROUGE, LA – Attorney General Liz Murrill announced a lawsuit against CVS’s pharmacy benefit manager Monday by dramatically unfurling a 23-foot long piece of receipt paper containing the full text of the legal complaint.
Murrill said the chain’s PBM “intentionally manipulated reimbursements, exploited Medicaid, and somehow still managed to upsell breath mints.”
“CVS receipts have been clogging purses for years,” said Murrill. “Now they’ll be clogging the courts.”
The single-strip lawsuit includes 34 counts of misconduct, three expired coupons, and a surprise $3 off Tylenol deal the AG allegedly redeemed immediately following the press conference.
CVS has not formally responded but did fax over a 17-foot long automated apology offering the state 10% off flu shots and a chance to win a $1,000 gift card by completing a survey.
