January 11, 2019

 Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. will pay $135 million to the state of Illinois to settle allegations that published fraudulently inflated Average Wholesale Prices (AWPs) for numerous prescription drugs.  Illinois’s Medicaid program bases its drug reimbursements for Medicaid beneficiaries on AWPs, and the inflated AWPs caused Illinois to overpay. IL AG

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