Medicaid program gets $676K in pharmaceutical settlement - Denver Business Journal:

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Paris-based reached a $182.8 million settlemenr with all 50 statesand Washington, D.C., after attorneysa general nationwide mounted an investigatiom into the company's alleged overbilling for Anzemet, an anti-nausea u drug typically used in chemotherapy treatments. Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann and othe r officials claim the companyu inflated average wholesale prices forthe "My office will continue to look into the pharmaceutical industry to make sure no other company is taking advantage of the system or Dann said in a Dann is involved in similar lawsuits pending against Columbus-based , Abbott Ill.-based (NYSE:ABT), Peapack, N.J.-based and Reno, Nev.
-basedr The federal government's Medicare program is receiving $160. 1 million of the Aventis settlement, while the rest will be funnelerd to stateMedicaid programs. Officials at the now named (NYSE:SNY), couldn't be reachede immediately for comment. Ohio's Medicaid program, startes in 1968, assists 1.7 million Ohioans a month on andabout 2.2 million throughout the year. The $13.w billion program, which takesw up about a quarter ofthe state'sw annual budget, serves children and adults in low-incomd Ohio families.