VIAL VACCINE PRICE GOUGER$ SUED
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October 22, 2004 -- DALLAS - Texas charged two distributors of the scarce influenza vaccine yesterday with price gouging, saying they hiked the price of the medicine by more than 1,000 percent.
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TOPEKA - A Florida company has disputed accusations that it tried to sell flu vaccine in Kansas at highly inflated prices. Fort Lauderdale-based ASAP Meds Inc.
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HOUSTON The Texas attorney general says it&#39;s &quot;simply unacceptable&quot; to charge exorbitant prices for flu shots at a time like this.
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Caught off-guard by a last-minute flu vaccine shortage, hospitals and health officials are grappling with a side-effect perhaps more virulent than the bug itself: price gouging.
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Patients of a physician who is charged with running a "pill mill" linked to 56 overdose deaths plan to sue the government, claiming it has put patients in mortal danger and created a public health disaster by prosecuting the doctor.
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SAN DIEGO -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit Friday against a San Diego-based flu shot distributor amid a shortage of the vaccine.
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U.S. health officials on Thursday  urged state attorneys general to fully investigate reports of  price gouging by companies distributing scarce supplies of  influenza vaccine and fully prosecute offenders.
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Inova Health System, one of Virginia&#39;s largest nonprofit hospital chains, is being sued in federal court for allegedly overcharging uninsured patients and then using &quot;aggressive and humiliating&quot; techniques to collect.
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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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Dr Gary McCallum, Washington state, has been accused of giving 55 patients out-of-date flu vaccines.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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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit Thursday against flu vaccine suppliers ASAP Meds Inc., doing business as Meds-Stat, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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A group of 14 independent pharmacists in California filed a lawsuit in Oakland on Thursday against the world&#39;s largest pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of conspiring to inflate drug prices in the United States as part of an illegal price-fixing
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A San Diego flu vaccine distributor was among three California companies subpoenaed by state Attorney General Bill Lockyer yesterday as part of an investigation into possible price gouging.
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US hospitals are being solicited by secondary pharmaceutical distributors offering flu vaccine at highly inflated prices, according to a new survey of hospital pharmacy directors.
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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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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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CAMDEN, New Jersey -- A convenience-store owner has been charged with smuggling flu vaccine into the United States and offering it for sale to a hospital, apparently to cash in on the national shortage.