CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State attorney general J.B. McCuskey says he cancelled a press conference scheduled for Tuesday where he was set to announce a lawsuit against a pharmacy benefit manager.

“It’s our hope that the delay in this press conference will be a great step towards starting to resolve some of this and recovering money for the people of West Virginia,” McCuskey said on MetroNews Midday.

Pharmacy benefit managers act as a third party between drug manufacturers, health insurance providers, and pharmacies and handle reimbursing drug claims.

McCuskey says PBMs are the main reason many small pharmacies are struggling.

“They’re able to sell drugs to their preferred pharmacies and then they force the local pharmacies to basically eat the spread. They then will sell the same drugs to a

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