September 30, 2010
Merck & Co. Inc. vowed Thursday to fight a $4.6 million jury verdict against the drugmaker in a suit alleging that a defunct subsidiary of Schering-Plough Corp. — which is now owned by Merck — reported inflated prices for albuterol to the Massachusetts Medicaid program.
March 09, 2010
Actavis Elizabeth LLC has paid $3.6 million to settle the state of Massachusetts' allegations that it jacked up the prices of drugs sold to the state's Medicaid program, becoming the latest pharmaceutical giant to have struck such a deal.
February 16, 2010
Agreeing to pay $2.4 million, Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. has become the latest drug giant to settle claims brought by the Massachusetts attorney general that it defrauded the state's Medicaid program into overpaying for prescription drugs.
August 26, 2009
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has accused Mylan Laboratories Inc. and other pharmaceutical companies of systematically reporting false and inflated prices for products purchased by the state's Medicaid program that resulted in millions of dollars in overpayments by taxpayers.
March 12, 2009
A federal judge has refused Mylan Laboratories Inc.'s bid to dismiss claims related to the anti-anxiety drug lorazepam in a lawsuit alleging the drugmaker conspired with competitors to inflate drug prices.
January 05, 2009
Teva Pharmaceutical USA Inc. has agreed to pay $7 million to settle allegations of drug price-fixing brought by the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office as part of a multidistrict litigation accusing a handful of pharmaceutical companies of falsely inflating the prices of drugs.
September 22, 2008
Generic-drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane Inc. has agreed to pay Massachusetts' state Medicaid program $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that it defrauded the program by overstating the cost of drugs.