Drug firm accused of billing a generic drug as a brand name.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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Byline: Nancy McVicar

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Ruth Ann Smith was stunned when her pharmacist asked for $20 as her co-payment for a month's supply of tamoxifen, a breast cancer drug. She had been paying $8 since her doctor first prescribed it last April.

Smith, 60, of Wilton Manors, a paralegal, said she made some phone calls and found that Merck-Medco, the company that handles prescription drug benefits for her health insurer,...

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