Drug Prices HRSA Launches New Website to Identify Ceiling Prices for 340B Covered Drugs Thomas Sullivan May 10, 2019 0 The Health Resources & Services Administration (“HRSA”) Office of Pharmacy Affairs recently launched an online tool that…
Affordable Care Act The Open Payments Database Has Increased Transparency, But Decreased… Thomas Sullivan May 9, 2019 0 The Affordable Care Act, which was passed in 2010, required the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) to establish…
State Policy New Jersey Finally Finalizes its “Gift” Ban Amendments – Exempts… Thomas Sullivan May 8, 2019 0 On May 6, the New Jersey Attorney General, Gurbir S. Grewal, finalized and made effective amendments to the rules governing…
Corporate Integrity Agreements US WorldMeds Settlement and Corporate Integrity Agreement to Resolve FCA… Thomas Sullivan May 7, 2019 0 On April 30, 2019, US WorldMeds LLC (“USWM”) agreed to pay $17.4 million to resolve Department of Justice (“DOJ”) allegations that…
Drug Prices Massachusetts & Drug Coupons: To Ban, or Not to Ban, that is the… Thomas Sullivan May 6, 2019 0 The Massachusetts law that permits the use of pharmaceutical manufacturer drug coupons is on life support. The law was set to…
Compliance First Ever Felony Criminal Charges’ Against a Distributor and its Former… Thomas Sullivan May 3, 2019 0 On April 23, 2019, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney and N.Y. Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration announced the “first ever…
DOJ FTC Finds Impax-Endo “No Approved Generic” Agreement to be Anticompetitive… Thomas Sullivan May 2, 2019 0 On March 28, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued an Opinion and Final Order against Impax Laboratories LLC…
Anti Kickback Amgen and Astellas pay $125.75 Million to Settle Allegations of Providing… Thomas Sullivan May 1, 2019 0 On April 25, 2019, Astellas Pharma US Inc. (“Astellas”) and Amgen Inc. (“Amgen”) agreed to pay a combined $125.75 million to…
Opioids Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $270 Million to Oklahoma to Settle Case… Thomas Sullivan Apr 30, 2019 0 On March 26, 2019, Purdue Pharma LP, the manufacturer of OxyContin, together with the Sackler family who own the company, agreed…
Drug Prices New Canadian Drug Agency Established to Address Soaring Drug Prices and… Thomas Sullivan Apr 29, 2019 0 Here in the US, there has been a tremendous amount of discussion in recent years about the soaring cost of prescription drugs, and…