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A suit by a group of California pharmacies claiming that 19 pharmaceutical manufacturers unlawfully inflated prices has been stopped by a state appellate court. The judges upheld the 2006 decision [...]

Byline: KRISTIN GUNDERSON HUNT NEW YORK-Express Scripts Inc. and CIGNA Corp. have settled a lawsuit brought by New York state that accused the pharmacy benefit manager of inflating prescription drug [...]

maria.ahmed@rbi.co.uk Campaigners have submitted evidence to the High Court challenging a decision to restrict access to dementia drugs on the NHS ahead of a judicial review. The Alzheimer's Society has [...]

HHS' inspector general's office has raised eyebrows for quietly withdrawing a tough report on Medicare overpayments to pharmaceutical companies, the first time in more than 20 years that a report [...]

CVS Corp. will pay $4 million to the federal government, the District of Columbia and 20 states to settle allegations that it dispensed partial or 'short' prescriptions due to insufficient [...]

An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seems to be the last chance for PhRMA to block Maine's prescription drug discount and price-control program. The six judges of the First [...]

BOSTON -- A federal court has cleared the way for Maine to implement price controls on prescription drugs if pharmaceutical firms fail to provide discounts for thousands of uninsured residents. [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. A settlement reached by 'the Federal Trade Commission and 33 state attorneys general and Mylan Laboratories will 'bring $221,000 to Rhode Island consumers and an''other $32,000 for state [...]

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the German statutory sickness funds (Krankenkassen) do not infringe EU competition laws in setting reference prices as they are exclusively social in nature and do not act as undertakings engaged in economic activity. As part of healthcare reforms, reference prices are to be introduced for patent-protected medicines unless they can be shown to be truly innovative.

SEATTLE - Community retail pharmacy must become more aggressive if it hopes to succeed in its ongoing battle against the discriminatory pricing practices of prescription drug makers. 'You don't have [...]

NEW YORK - The retail pharmacy community is fighting an ever-widening war against alleged discriminatory pricing on the part of brand name drug manufacturers. Last year 10 drug chains, including [...]

Saturday, September 26, 2009, marks an important day with respect to pharmacy drag reimbursement and drug pricing information. In the aftermath of a class-action lawsuit brought against First DataBank (FDB) [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A federal court's approval of final settlements involving First DataBank and Medi-Span is being opposed by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. The ruling by U.S. [...]

The Norway government adopted the EU price transparency Directive that regulates the price setting scheme for prescription medicines. As a result Pfizer, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, who have appealed to the Oslo court against the Norwegian state and the health department for imposing price reductions up to 11% on a number of their products, are levied to pay costs of NKr122,328 ($18,000). However, the case has initiated the agency to review the prices of a large number of products.

The state of Pennsylvania has sued 13 major pharmaceutical companies for unlawful and deceptive pricing of their drugs. Pennsylvania is the latest of several states to file a lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies over their average wholesale price (AWP) practices.

Michigan and Vermont--two of the states pushing hardest to control Medicaid prescription drug costs--have announced a partnership to boost their buying power with pharmaceutical companies. Under the plan, which is [...]

A judicial panel has decided that 46 prescription drug price discrimination cases will be tried as a single case at a federal court in Chicago, IL. The suits charge 39 major pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers and the mail-order retailer Medco Containment Services Inc with price discrimination. Charges were brought in 1993 by the Pharmacy Defense Fund in California, a coalition of 20 drugstores, and the Pharmacy Freedom Fund in Texas and in several states in Jan 1994., A judicial panel in Arizona has combined 46 discriminatory drug pricing lawsuits filed by retail pharmacies into one megasuit to be tried in Chicago. The combined lawsuit charging discriminatory pricing [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va.--NARD has thrown its support behind the recent discriminatory pricing antitrust lawsuit brought against pharmaceutical manufacturers. In October 10 chain drug stores and an equal number of independents filed [...]

Price can't supplant professional considerations How would you answer this question: Why do consumers purchase their prescriptions at your pharmacy? For me, the answer would probably have to be personal [...]

SGC Consents In Pathmark Case Supermarkets General Corp., operator of Pathmark Supermarkets, has voluntarily consented to $6,000 in payments and penalties in connection with charges that Pathmark pharmacies here and [...]