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COPYRIGHT 2004 International Medical News Group
The recent spate of lawsuits by states over drug companies' use of the Medicaid drug pricing system is likely to continue, according to several experts.
Some of the suits filed by state attorneys general are quite blunt. "The defendants have engaged in a scheme that siphons off money intended for the Arkansas Medicaid program," reads a suit filed in January by Arkansas Attorney General Mike Beebe. Another, filed by Pennsylvania Attorney General Jerry Pappert, says: "The drug companies ... have engaged in an unfair and deceptive marketing and sales scheme and conspiracy to provide improper incentives and inducements to medical providers ... to promote the sale of Defendants' drugs at inflated prices."
Other states that have filed suits include California, Nevada, New York, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Ohio....
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