IN RE PHARM. INDUS. AVERAGE WHOLESALE PRICE LITIG.

Civil Action No. 06-11337-PBS. MDL 1456. Master File No. 01-12257-PBS.

538 F.Supp.2d 392 (2008)

In re PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AVERAGE WHOLESALE PRICE LITIGATION. This document relates to: United States of America ex rel. Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc., Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

March 13, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey B. Aaronson, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Anthony J. Anscombe, Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold, Violeta I. Balan, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Chicago, IL, Marc E. Ackerman, Harris Beach LLP, Kevin N. Ainsworth, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., Melissa Aoyagi, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Jennifer Aurora, Dawn M. Berhony, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, Brian L. Bank, Lara A. Berwanger, Thomas M. Biesty, White & Case LLP, Edwin Baum, Elise M. Bloom, Proskauer Rose LLP, Sheila L. Birnbaum, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York, NY, Pamela Zorn Adams, Sherin and Lodgen LLP, Brooks A. Ames, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP, Jessica Vincent Barnett, Foley Hoag LLP, Christopher K. Barry — Smith, Office of the Attorney General, Daniel J. Bennett, Ropes & Gray LLP, Aimee E. Bierman, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP, Brandon L. Bigelow, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Scott A. Birnbaum, Birnbaum & Godkin, LLP, Robert P. Blood, Goodwin Procter LLP, Thomas J. Bone, III, Michael P. Boudett, Foley Hoag LLP, Douglas S. Brooks, Kelly, Libby & Hoopes, PC, Boston, MA, Kenneth W. Africano, Harter, Secrest Law Firm, Mitchell J. Banas, Jr., Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel LLP, Elizabeth M. Bergen, Gibson, McAskill Law Firm, Buffalo, NY, Neil Alden, Curtis Bergen, Bowman and Brooke LLP, Joseph G. Adams, Snell & Wilmer, LLP, Martin A. Aronson, Morrill & Aronson, Donald Wayne Bivens, Meyer Hendricks & Bivens, George Ian Brandon, Sr., Squire Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, Phoenix, AZ, Justin S. Antonipillai, Arnold & Porter, LLP, Pamela J. Auerbach, Alexander L. Berg, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Jon Steven Baughman, Ropes & Gray LLP, Stacy D. Belf, Ropes & Gray LLP, Andrew T. Boone, Williams & Connolly LLP, Timothy Broas, Winston & Strawn LLP, Washington, DC, Scott A. Barbour, McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams, Lynn M. Blake, Freidman, Hirschen Law Firm, Albany, NY, Steven F. Barley, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, Baltimore, MD, Elissa F. Borges, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, A Professional Corporation, Baltimore, MD, S. Paul Battaglia, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC, Syracuse, NY, P. Ryan Beckett, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Neville H. Boschert, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, P.A., Felix Lee. Bowie, III, Davidson, Bowie & Sims, PLLC, Jackson, MS, Lawrence D. Berger, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Mark A. Berman, Hartmann Doherty Rosa & Berman, LLC, Hackensack, NJ, Rex Blackburn, Blackburn & Jones, Boise, ID, Sam B. Blair, Jr., Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis, TN, Jack B. Blumenfeld, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE, for Defendants.

Marjory P. Albee, Mager & Goldstein LLP, Gary L. Azorsky, Berger & Montague, PC, Terrianne Benedetto, Susan Aaronson, Kline & Specter, Anthony Bolognese, Bolognese & Associates, Donald E. Haviland, Jr., The Haviland Law Firm, LLC, Philadelphia, PA, C. Jarrett Anderson, Anderson LLC, Larry Black, Pro Hac Vice, Austin, TX, P. Jeffrey Archibald, Archibald Consumer Law Office, Charles Barnhill, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Madison, WI, Kathryn Bale, Kirby, McInerney & Squire, LLP, David J. Bershad, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, New York, NY, Rebecca Bedwell-Coll, Moscone, Emblidge & Quadra, San Francisco, CA, Steve W. Berman, Jeniphr Breckenridge, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, LLP, Seattle, WA, Nancy M. Bonnell, Phoenix, AZ, Ali Bovingdon, Helena, MT, James J. Breen, The Breen Law Firm, P.A., Alpharetta, GA, Thomas W. Breidenstein, Barrett & Weber, Cincinnati, OH, Kenneth J. Brennan, SimmonsCooper LLC, East Alton, IL, Charlie Bridgmon, McCutchen, Blanton, Rhodes & Johnson, Columbia, SC, for Plaintiffs.

Susan Hughes Banning, Hemenway & Barnes, Boston, MA, for Movant.

Steven E. Bizar; Buchanan Ingersoll, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Amerisource-Bergen Corporation.

Julie B. Brennan, Manchel & Brennan, P.C., Newton, MA, for United Healthcare, Inc. and United HealthCare Insurance Company.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

The United States brings this action under the False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733 and state law,1 seeking to recover losses to the Medicare and Medicaid programs caused by the reporting of allegedly excessive and fraudulent prices for certain drugs by defendant Abbott Laboratories, Inc. ("Abbott"). The alleged fraudulent drug pricing...

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