Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Pharmaceuticals:

EMPIRE STATE JOINS AWP CRUSADE

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer joined a half dozen other states in suing drugmakers over one of the hottest compliance hot buttons of recent years: alleged meddling with the average wholesale price that governs Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement. In lawsuits filed Feb. 13, Spitzer accused GlaxoSmithKline and Pharmacia of reporting an inflated AWP and using the difference between the [...]
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