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Health and Medicine


Ohio Medicaid gets $40 million in settlement with drug maker
GlaxoSmithKline settlent is largest in U.S. history
by WKSU's STATEHOUSE CORRESPONDENT BILL COHEN


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Bill Cohen
 
GlaxoSmithKline will pay up in the largest health-care fraud settlement in the nation's history.

Ohio is getting a $40 million slice of a $3 billion national settlement with drug maker GlaxoSmithKline. 

Ohio was one of five states and several federal agencies who investigated claims that the global pharmaceutical company marketed drugs for unapproved uses and lied about their safety and how they worked.  The drugs included the anti-asthma drug Advair and anti-depressant Paxil.

Attorney General Mike DeWine says it’s the largest health-care fraud settlement in U.S. history, and that GlaxoSmithKline also plans to plead guilty to federal criminal charges in the case.

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“Ohio Attorney Mike Dewine says a big prescription drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline, has agreed to pay $3 billion so the state’s and the federal government will drop accusations that the company illegally marketed and priced medicines like Paxil, Advair and Wellbutrin. If the proposed settlement is finalized, Ohio’s Medicaid system would be reimbursed $40 million. Here’s the way DeWine sums up the case: ‘GlaxoSmithKline illegally marketed several prescription drugs for ailments the medications were not intended to treat. The medicines were then over-prescribed, and paid for with Ohio taxpayer dollars.’”

Listener Comments:

Ok how much of that money that were prescribed and payed for that medication get?????????????


Posted by: marie (akron) on July 10, 2012 11:07AM
Well, it's the largest settlement, NOW. Rick Scott, elected by the sheep of Floriduh, now moves down one peg on the ladder of soul-sucking corporate scum. What planet do these dark forces hail from? Put every last CEO who says.......I didn't know about any of this, in jail, or better yet, feed them to rabid dogs. They are sub-human.


Posted by: Mermaiden (Bradenton, FL) on July 2, 2012 3:07AM
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