IN RE PHARM. INDUS. AVERAGE WHOLESALE PRICE LIT.

No. 1456, CIV.A. 01-12257-PBS.

263 F.Supp.2d 172 (2003)

In re PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AVERAGE WHOLESALE PRICE LITIGATION

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

May 13, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Bershad, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, New York, NY, Nicole Y. Brumsted, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Boston, J. Douglas Richards, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, LLP, Robert G. Eisler, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, NY, Hagens Berman, Boston, Michael J. Flannery, The David Danis Law Firm, P.C., St. Louis, MO, Michael M. Buchman, Milbert, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, LLP, New York, NY, Joseph R. Saveri, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Boston, Eric B. Fastiff, Leiff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Edward Notargiacomo, Hagens Berman, Boston, Joseph Danis, The David Danis Law Firm, P.C., St. Loius, MO, Steve W. Berman, Hagens & Berman, Seattle, WA, James A. Quadra, Rebecca Bedwell-Coll, Robert D. Sanford, Mascone, Emblidge & Quadra, San Francisco, CA, for Citizens for Consumer Justice, Colorado Progressive Coalition, Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, Health Care for All, Massachusetts Senior Action Council, Masspirg, Minnesota Senior Federation, New Jersey Citizen Action, New York State Wide Senior Action Council, Pennsylvania Alliance for Retired Americans, Vermont Public Interest Research Group, West Virginia Citizen Action, Wisconsin Citizen Action, Citizen Action of New York, Connecticut Citizen Action Group, Gray Panthers of Sacramento, Health Action of New Mexico, Maine Consumers for Affordable Health Care, North Carolina Fair Share, Oregon Health Action Campaign, Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, United Senior Action of Indiana, Inc., Betty Sicher, Joan S. Lee, John Bennett, Pearl Munic, Sue Miles, Jack Douglas, All Plaintiffs, State of Montana, State of Nevada, John B. Rice, Constance Thompson, Plaintiffs.

Tina M. Tabacchi, Jeremy P. Cole, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Chicago, IL, Mark J. MacDougall, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Bauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, DC, Jeffrey I. Weinberger, Munger Tolles & Olson, Nicholas H. Patton, Patton Tidwell Sandefur, Texarkana, TX, Christopher R. Cook, Jones Day, Washington, DC, Daniel E. Reidy, Jones Day, Chicago, IL, Jesse A. Witten, Jones Day, Washington, DC, David F. Graham, Richard D. Raskin, Bruce M. Zessar, David C. Giardina, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, IL, Anastasia M. Fernands, Goodwin Procter LLP, Robert P. Sherman, Nixon Peabody LLP, Boston, Knapp, Petersen and Clarke, Glendale, CA, James C. Burling, William F. Lee, Hale & Dorr, LLP, Frank A. Libby, Jr., Douglas S. Brooks, Kelly, Libby & Hoopes, PC, Boston, Joseph H. Young, Steven F. Barley, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, Baltimore, MD, D. Scott Wise, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, Arthur F. Golden, Kimberley D. Harris, Manisha M. Sheth, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY, Nicholas C. Theodorou, Scott Garland, Foley Hoag LLP, Michael DeMarco, Jeanne E. Demers, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Boston, Robert J. Higgins, J. Andrew Jackson, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Matthew A. Rossi, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington, DC, Michael Sennett, Jeffrey B. Aaronson, Paula W. Render, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, IL, Peter E. Gelhaar, Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar, LLP, Boston, Andrew J. Jackson, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, Merle M. Delancey, Jr., Dickstein Morin & Oshinsky LLP, Washington, DC, Thomas E. Dwyer, Jr., Joseph Ernest Haviland, Dwyer & Collora, LLP, Boston, Lyndon M. Tretter, Steven M. Edwards, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, New York, NY, Daniel J. Cloherty, Dwyer & Collora LLP, Robert Wolkon, Wolkon & Pascucci, LLP, Boston, Ronald L. Castle, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin, Plotkin & Kahn, LLC, Washington, DC, S. Elaine McChesney, for Abbott Laboratories, Allergan Worldwide, Alpha Therapeutic Corporation, American Home Products Corp., Amgen Inc., Astrazeneca US, Aventis Pharmacy, Bayer, AG, Baxter International, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Chiron, Fugisawa Healthcare, Inc., Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this proposed class action, plaintiffs allege that numerous pharmaceutical companies fraudulently overstate the published "average wholesale price" ("AWP") of many of their prescription drugs, which results in inflated payments for such drugs by beneficiaries of the federal Medicare Part B program (through beneficiary copayments), private health and welfare plans, and other end-payors...

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