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Article: ATTORNEY GENERAL COAKLEY'S OFFICE REACHES $1.8 MILLION SETTLEMENT WITH DRUG MANUFACTURER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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The Massachusetts Attorney General issued the following news release:
Attorney General Martha Coakley's Office has reached a settlement with Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane, Inc. (Roxane), a Columbus, OH based drug manufacturer. Roxane has agreed to pay the state's Medicaid program, MassHealth, $1.8 million to resolve a False Claims Act case pending in U. S. District Court in Boston. Roxane is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ridgefield, CT based Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation.
"Drug company price reporting is a national and industry-wide problem that the Commonwealth, as well as other states and the federal government, continues to address," Attorney General Martha Coakley said. "Our office will ...