AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine will receive about $13,000 as part of a $612 million national settlement with Amgen Inc. over allegations that the pharmaceutical company illegally promoted and manipulated the prices of some of its drugs.
Maine will receive a total of $13,313, according to a press release from the Maine Attorney General’s Office on Thursday.
The federal government alleged that Amgen used illegal marketing practices to promote sales of the drugs Aranesp, Enbrel and Neulasta and arranged kickbacks to health care providers for choosing six of the company’s drugs for Medicaid recipients. Amgen also knowingly reported inaccurate prices for some drugs, the government alleged.
The settlement money will compensate Medicaid, Medicare and other federal health care programs for harm suffered as a result of Amgen’s conduct.
$13,000$ Hardly worth writing the check, or the article.
Umm… Am I missing something?
Looks like the lawyers got the bulk of that settlement
…and in typical American fashion management walks. (and probably with a bonus)
screw who ever you can “That’s the Motto” for the business industry and is just getting worse.
$13,000 Wow. Not even enough for Maine to buy its own lube on the snow Job it got..
Why is it the state gets the money when it was the people who lost it in the first place? These types of settlements always pay the state, not those individuals who took the beating to begin with.
I’d like to see this State require Drug Reps to be licensed. I’d also like to see them be held liable when the trash that they are pushing, very frequently off-label, turns out to be poison.