Pa. sues 13 drug firms on prices

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The attorney general of Pennsylvania sued 13 pharmaceutical companies and accused them of using deceptive pricing and sale practices in the scheme to inflate the cost of medicine. The lawsuit filed in Commonwealth Court, claims drugmakers provided improper incentives to doctors to choose their drugs and then inflated the average wholesale prices to force consumers and state agencies to pay significantly higher prices.

Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing, Commodity & service prices, Drugs, Legal/Government Regulation, Metabolic Agents NEC, Metabolic Agents, Company legal issue, Cases, Pharmaceutical industry, Prices and rates, Investigations, Company pricing policy

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Huge whistle-blower award resored in SmithKline case

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The article discusses the SmithKline case and how a federal judge ordered the government to pay a Berks County man more than $26 million for helping it reach a Medicare fraud settlement worth $325 million with Smith Kline Beecham P.L.C.

Smith Kline Beecham PLC

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Cephalon to acquire a Frence drug firm

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Cephalon Inc. to acquire France's Group Lafon. Company officials say the acquisition will give them a leading drug for the treatment of narcolepsy as well as 13 other drugs, and research and manufacturing facilities.

Asset sales & divestitures, Acquisitions & mergers, France, Company Profile, Cephalon Inc., CEPH, Group Lafon

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