Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Wyeth - Protonix: whistleblower alert!

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department yesterday accused Wyeth, one of the nation's biggest drugmakers, of cheating Medicaid programs out of hundreds of millions of dollars by overcharging for the stomach-acid drug Protonix.

The Justice Department and more than a dozen states - including Delaware - have joined in two whistle-blower lawsuits against the Madison, N.J.-based drug company filed in federal court in Massachusetts.

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