Pharmaceutical companies pay state in fraud case
by MBJ Staff Published: October 25,2011
Tags: drugs, fraud, lawsuit, Medicaid, pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceuticals, settlement, state government
JACKSON — The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office says it has recovered $6 million from three pharmaceutical companies that misreported the price of prescription drugs for Medicaid patients. In a statement, Attorney General Jim Hood says agreements were reached with Par Pharmaceutical Inc. and Alpharma USPD Inc. and Purepac Pharmaceutical Co., now known as Actavis MidAtlantic, [...] [...]
