Topic: Medicaid
The industry's trade group, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, agreed to contribute those savings to help pay for Democrats' proposed $1 trillion health care overhaul. That deal was struck with the White House and the chairman of the Senate Finance ...
Closing arguments end in Ala. lawsuit accusing drug company of overcharging Medicaid programsClosing arguments have ended in the state of Alabama's lawsuit against a California-based drug maker accused of cheating the state's Medicaid program out of millions of dollars.State attorney Jere Beasley ...
Sanofi-aventis U.S. announced today a civil settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts to resolve a Medicaid " best price" investigation involving one of its predecessor companies, Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (API).. The ...
Drugmaker Aventis to pay US, states nearly $100 million to settle Medicaid drug pricing caseDrugmaker Sanofi-Aventis has agreed to pay nearly $100 million to settle allegations it cheated Medicaid on the cost of nasal sprays.The Justice Department said Aventis Pharmaceutical Inc., a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday that it and 16 states had joined two whistleblower lawsuits filed against Wyeth which allege the drugmaker failed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in rebates to Medicaid.The lawsuits accuse Wyeth ...
Drug companies are supposed to sell their drugs to Medicaid for the cheapest price they negotiate with purchasers from the private sector. The Justice Department said yesterday that the federal government and 16 states are joining two whistleblower lawsuits that allege Wyeth ...
US charges drugmaker Wyeth cheated Medicaid out of millions of dollarsThe Justice Department on Monday accused Wyeth, one of the nation's biggest drugmakers, of cheating Medicaid programs out of hundreds of millions of dollars by overcharging for a stomach acid drug.The Justice ...
Jurors ordered the German-based pharmaceutical company Sandoz Inc. on Tuesday to pay Alabama $78.4 million for causing the state Medicaid program to pay too much for prescription drugs from 1991 to 2005.The jury ordered Sandoz, a subsidiary of Novartis AG, to pay ...
Alabama settles prescription drug suits against Bristol-Myers Squibb, 4 other companiesThe state of Alabama has settled Medicaid drug pricing lawsuits it filed against prescription drug manufacturer Bristol-Myers Squibb and four other companies, a lawyer representing the state confirmed Friday.Bristol-Myers Squibb is one ...
Congress should expand the law that has helped recoup billions from health care fraud In the 1990s the Justice Department started relying on whistleblowers in private industry to combat health care fraud in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.A study recently published in ...
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MEDICAID CUTS
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Medicaid Cuts Fallout
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Alabama Dental Fight
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