Washington state to get $9M in Pfizer settlement
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna says the state’s share of a nationwide settlement with Pfizer Inc. is $9 million.
The money is part of a record $2.3 billion in fines and penalties the nation’s largest drug maker is paying to states and the federal government. It resolves a case involving illegal drug promotions in which doctors were plied with free golf, massages, and resort junkets.
Dawn C. Cortez, an assistant attorney general who heads the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, says patients in Washington used less of the medications that were involved in the suit than in some other states. She explains that’s the principal reason why Washington’s share of the settlement is relatively small.
(AP)
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