Duane Morris LLP

Jonathan L. Swichar is Chair of the Duane Morris Pharmacy Litigation Group and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board.

For more than 25 years, Mr. Swichar has represented thousands of independent pharmacies and healthcare providers in regulatory, civil and criminal proceedings. His practice is dedicated to representing all provider types, throughout the United States, including specialty pharmacies, mail order pharmacies, retail pharmacies, compounding pharmacies, home infusion pharmacies, tele-health pharmacies, hospital pharmacies, home care pharmacies, long term care pharmacies, oncology pharmacies, among others.

He has handled thousands of matters on behalf of such providers involving all aspects of their business operations including, but not limited to, issues with payors and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), PBM audit appeals, challenges to network terminations, refusals to provide network access and in the submission of credentialing applications.  Additionally, he routinely counsels pharmacies on reimbursement rate issues, reimbursement disputes and refusals by payors and PBMs to abide by Federal and State any willing provider laws and other legal requirements.   He has been lead counsel on behalf of such providers in thousands of disputes in state and federal courts throughout the country, all arbitration forums and in mediation.

Mr. Swichar's pharmacy experience includes representing multiple retail, mail and specialty pharmacies in negotiating agreements with pharmacy benefit managers for dramatically-improved reimbursement rates for branded and generic drugs, resulting in millions of dollars in additional reimbursement. He has also assisted numerous pharmacies in obtaining network status after being denied and successfully represented pharmacies in overturning decisions by pharmacy benefit managers to terminate them from their networks. He has also represented numerous pharmacies in connection with responding to audits and has successfully challenged audit results. In addition, he has defended numerous pharmacies in connection with investigations by state boards of pharmacy, Attorney General Offices, United States Attorney's Offices and multiple other state and federal government agencies. Mr. Swichar also frequently consults with state and federal legislators in the drafting and proposing of legislation to reign in abuses by pharmacy benefit managers and improve protections afforded to pharmacies.

Duane Morris LLP - Partner, 2006-present - Associate, 1997-2005

American Bar Association Pennsylvania Bar Association Philadelphia Bar Association Legal Committee, National Association of Specialty Pharmacies - Co-Chair, 2025-present - Member, 2019-present Member, American Society for Pharmacy Law, 2018-present Member, American Society for Pharmacy Law Education Committee, 2018-present Member, National Community Pharmacists Association, 2017-present Lawyers' Club of Philadelphia - Board of Directors

Temple University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1997