3 Drug Makers Are Convicted in Reimbursement Overcharges
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AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough must pay damages for overcharging on certain drugs.
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A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled on Thursday that pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough Corp. subsidiary Warrick Pharmaceuticals falsely marked up U.S. drug prices at various times through 2003.
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The Illinois attorney general accused  48 major drug makers of fraud for overcharging government  health care programs, joining several other U.S. states filing  similar suits, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Law enforcement authorities are stepping up an attack on health-care fraud that they say costs taxpayers more than $60 billion each year.
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New Yorkâs attorney general is looking into whether insurers overcharged patients for out-of-network doctors.
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Brokers required to provide competing bids have been taking payoffs from insurance companies, New York's attorney general charged today.
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An OFT probe finds the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs, the BBC learns.
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Federal prosecutors cracked a global cartel that had illegally fixed prices of memory chips in personal computers and servers for three years.
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European regulators raided some of the continentâs biggest drug makers in an inquiry over whether patent disputes and lawsuits are keeping generic products off the market.
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The $80 million penalties against the founders of Pilgrim Baxter are the largest imposed on individuals since investigations began last fall into improper trading at some mutual fund companies.
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Corus is orded to pay over Â£3m in fines and costs for the 2001 explosion which killed three workers.
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Pharmacists are taking advantage of Medicaid pricing rules to reap two and three times their cost for generic medicines, lawmakers said Tuesday.
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The European Union head office imposed fines totaling about &#36;283 million on three companies on Wednesday for carving up among themselves the European market for a chemical used to produce detergents, food and cosmetics.
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State auditors said they found widespread mismanagement in a state program to pay for prescription drugs for low-income families that cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
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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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The elevator makers were fined $1.3 billion for operating cartels for the installation and maintenance of elevators and escalators.
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The federal judge imposed fines, probation and community service on three executives who pleaded guilty in May to misleading the public about the addiction risk posed by the pain medication.