Pharmacy
News of Marathon's resignation comes after wide criticism for $89,000 price tag for Emflaza, a drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug.
Hospitals, doctors' practices, government, insurers, and healthcare IT companies could all be affected, Kalorama says.
Use of prescription drugs in Medicaid was lower in states with medical marijuana laws; estimated savings totaled about $1.01 billion.
PhRMA Senior VP Scott LaGanga led Partnership for Safe Medicines, which recently emerged as leading voice against bills allow drug imports.
Proposal would levy the tax directly on opioid manufacturers and wholesalers, who would pay 1 cent per milligram at the first point of sale.
Dubbed 'Operation Avalanche,' alleged fraud ring involved three Brooklyn clinics that spawned illegal oxycodone prescriptions, fraudulent Medicare claims.
It's the largest ever criminal fine levied against a pharmaceutical company for FCPA violations.
The ongoing Attorneys General investigation began in 2014, according to the complaint, and has "uncovered evidence of a broad, well-coordinated and long-running series of schemes."
Overdoses kill 90 people in the United States each day; opioid poisonings cost more than $20 billion in emergency departments, hospital care.
From sample of 1,202 adults, eight percent of respondents said they or someone in their household had imported a drug at some point.