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- Kentucky Gets $1.75 Million In National Settlement With Big Drug Maker; Marketing And Promotional Practices Reined In
Kentucky will receive approximately $1.75 million from a $105 million national settlement with GlaxoSmithKline to resolve allegations that the pharmaceutical manufacturer unlawfully promoted its asthma drug, Advair, and its antidepressant drugs, Paxil...
- Conway Funnels $1.5 Million In Drug-company Settlements To Develop Prevention And Treatment Plan For Kids' Substance Abuse
With two lawsuit settlements from drug makers, Attorney General Jack Conway is giving the University of Kentucky $1.5 million over two years to develop a comprehensive plan for the prevention and treatment of substance abuse by adolescents. ?Adolescent...
- Conway Pushes For All States To Track Prescription Drugs
As Kentucky lawmakers consider legislation that would tackle suspect pain management clinics, the issue is making waves in Washington as well. On Thursday, Attorney General Jack Conway, right, told the U.S. Congress "that every state in the nation needs...
- Former Boss Of Troubled Personal-care Home Is Indicted
"Another former administrator of a troubled Letcher County personal care home has been indicted on charges of witness tampering and theft," Beth Musgrave reports for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A county grand jury indicted Jonah Tackett, former administrator...
- Company To Pay $2 Million For Doctoring Medicaid Documents
The company that administers Medicaid for Jefferson and 15 other counties will pay more than $2 million in damages because it falsified documents to get a bonus. AmeriHealth Mercy's altered data increased its score for the number of cervical cancer...
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Kentucky leads nation in drug-fraud prosecutions and settlements
Kentucky leads the U.S. in pursuing pharmaceutical fraud, according to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based consumer group, Public Citizen. Since 1991, the state has pursued the most claims against pharmaceutical companies and reached more than 30 settlements. It pursued 17 single-state settlements, the most of any state.
The most common violation was overcharging Medicaid programs for services, mostly for drugs, Beth Musgrave of the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. The violations that netted the biggest penalties were for improper promotion of drugs. Attorney General Jack Conway oversees the Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control; his spokeswoman, Shelley Catherine Johnson, told Musgrave the agency has recovered or been awarded more than $265 million since Conway took office in January 2008. (Read more)
The most common violation was overcharging Medicaid programs for services, mostly for drugs, Beth Musgrave of the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. The violations that netted the biggest penalties were for improper promotion of drugs. Attorney General Jack Conway oversees the Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control; his spokeswoman, Shelley Catherine Johnson, told Musgrave the agency has recovered or been awarded more than $265 million since Conway took office in January 2008. (Read more)
- Kentucky Gets $1.75 Million In National Settlement With Big Drug Maker; Marketing And Promotional Practices Reined In
Kentucky will receive approximately $1.75 million from a $105 million national settlement with GlaxoSmithKline to resolve allegations that the pharmaceutical manufacturer unlawfully promoted its asthma drug, Advair, and its antidepressant drugs, Paxil...
- Conway Funnels $1.5 Million In Drug-company Settlements To Develop Prevention And Treatment Plan For Kids' Substance Abuse
With two lawsuit settlements from drug makers, Attorney General Jack Conway is giving the University of Kentucky $1.5 million over two years to develop a comprehensive plan for the prevention and treatment of substance abuse by adolescents. ?Adolescent...
- Conway Pushes For All States To Track Prescription Drugs
As Kentucky lawmakers consider legislation that would tackle suspect pain management clinics, the issue is making waves in Washington as well. On Thursday, Attorney General Jack Conway, right, told the U.S. Congress "that every state in the nation needs...
- Former Boss Of Troubled Personal-care Home Is Indicted
"Another former administrator of a troubled Letcher County personal care home has been indicted on charges of witness tampering and theft," Beth Musgrave reports for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A county grand jury indicted Jonah Tackett, former administrator...
- Company To Pay $2 Million For Doctoring Medicaid Documents
The company that administers Medicaid for Jefferson and 15 other counties will pay more than $2 million in damages because it falsified documents to get a bonus. AmeriHealth Mercy's altered data increased its score for the number of cervical cancer...