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'We Made Them Pay It Back': NC Attorney General Settles $11 Million Lawsuit with EpiPen Distributor
The agreement includes $4.2 million for the state health plan and lower out-of-pocket costs for families, officials said.
- On Thursday, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced an $11 million settlement with Mylan to resolve claims the company inflated EpiPen prices through anti-competitive practices.
- Mylan allegedly drove EpiPen costs from roughly $100 to around $600 between 2007 and 2016 by blocking generic competition, misclassifying rebates, and forcing customers to purchase two-packs unnecessarily.
- State Treasurer Brad Briner confirmed the State Health Plan and North Carolina Medicaid will each receive $4.2 million, money Briner said will "go right back to keeping premiums down."
- Under the agreement, Mylan will increase its generic EpiPen co-pay coupon from $25 to $40, a change Attorney General Jackson said will lower immediate out-of-pocket costs for families.
- This settlement follows a $21.4 million agreement reached by then-Attorney General Josh Stein in 2017, signaling continued enforcement against prescription drug manufacturers for anti-competitive behavior.
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NC reaches $11M deal with EpiPen maker over price increases
At a press conference at the North Carolina Department of Justice on Thursday, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that the state has reached an $11 million settlement with Mylan, the maker and distributor of the EpiPen, for a number of anti-competitive practices that allowed it to mark up the price by 6 times in the state in under a decade. About $4.2 million of the settlement will go to the State Health Plan and the Medicaid…
'We made them pay it back': NC Attorney General settles $11 million lawsuit with EpiPen distributor
Mylan, the U.S. distributor and marketer of EpiPens, reached a multi-million dollar deal with North Carolina's Attorney General, who claimed the state overpaid for the product.
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