Attorney General Hatch files appeal against Pharmacia Corp.
Attorney General Mike Hatch filed a complaint Ramsey County District this week against Pharmacia Corporation, a manufacturer of drug East Coast, under which he broke his consumer fraud laws oblige the government and the elderly pay prices for a variety of chemotherapy drugs for cancer.
ìThe cost of fraud is Pharmaciaís Minnesota shoulders of taxpayers and consumers especially older, suffer from cancer, said î Hatch.
ìIt shocking, to me, î he said.
Hatch the cost of drugs alleged to Minnesota to $ 1 million. But it is a rough estimate, he said. The actual costs may be as high as $ 5 million to $ 10 million, said Hatch.
In the statement that the charges Hatch intentionally excessive Pharmacia ìaverage wholesale priceî (CPE) of government and industry price Reporting Services.
Medicaid, Medicare and Medicare recipients to pay a certain percentage of AWP ó five percent of AWP.
Hatch says that the CPE reflects Pharmacia was 10 times the cost of company clinics.
The company encourages doctors to buy their medications, because the difference between actual costs drugís and the AWP was so large.
This could lead to greater profit.
ìThe doctors arenít something wrong. Weíre not, after doctors said î Hatch.
Hatch said, it appears that a number of medicines used by different companies have similar regulations AWP price.
According to a report in January 2001 the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Medicare paid more than 1.2 billion dollars, because the cost structures of drugs as a result of the disappointment AWP, “he said.
Texas, West Virginia, Montana, Nevada, and have submitted all complaints about the AWP fraud, “said Hatch.
Hatch said people are waiting for other actions by the Crown Office of Generalís against drugs in terms of pricing AWP.
But he added that the costumes really arenít on inequality and injustice in the health system.
ìThis Punching / cutting is at the margins, î he said. ìThis doesnít the heart of the health system, î he said.
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