States go after vaccine price gouging
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Attorneys general in Connecticut and Texas have filed suit against ASAP Meds Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for flu-vaccine price gouging.
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A Fort Lauderdale pharmaceutical wholesaler facing the nation&#39;s first price-gouging lawsuits related to the flu vaccine has a history of charging exorbitant prices for hard-to-find drugs, the
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Federal health officials said on Thursday that they would investigate reports of price gouging for flu shots in response to a severe national shortage of the influenza vaccine.
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Dr Gary McCallum, Washington state, has been accused of giving 55 patients out-of-date flu vaccines. He used last year&#39;s vaccines, says the Medical Quality Assurance Commission of Washington State.
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Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said Friday that he&#39;s concerned about reports of price gouging and the potential for unscrupulous operators to give fake immunizations.
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As the demand for the flu vaccine continues to put pressure on an already scarce supply, price gouging has become a problem. The Attorney General of Kansas has filed a lawsuit against Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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The governors of Illinois and New  Mexico accused French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis SASY.PA of  balking in providing data to U.S. regulators in the states'  attempts to secure flu vaccine in the midst of a national  shortage.
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The Kansas attorney general&#39;s office has settled a lawsuit alleging that a Florida company attempted to sell flu vaccine at inflated prices.
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A convenience store owner from South Jersey has been charged with smuggling flu vaccine into the United States in an effort to cash in on the national shortage of the inoculations.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Department of Health is seeking nearly 100,000 additional doses of flu vaccine for statewide distribution.
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Texas charged two distributors of the  scarce influenza vaccine on Thursday with price gouging, saying  they hiked the price of the medicine by more than 1,000  percent.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Fort Lauderdale drug wholesaler accused of overcharging for the flu vaccine is turning over its vaccine inventory.
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A black-market flu-shot smuggler who tried to exploit the nation&#39;s vaccine shortage is on the lam after trying to sell thousands of illegal doses to a New Jersey hospital, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
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HOUSTON -- &quot;Don&#39;t mess with Texas&quot; took on new meaning last week when Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott went after two flu vaccine suppliers who tried to price gouge hospitals for the hard-to-get medicine.
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Some states are paying far higher prices than others for prescription drugs under the Medicaid program, but data that would help them get a better deal
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With many health care facilities struggling to find flu vaccine, some small suppliers have capitalized on the acute shortage by demanding as much as 10 times the usual price.
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State health officials will now be allocating flu vaccines as high-risk individuals seek out the remaining supply of shots, federal health officials said Tuesday.