Miles Adalat CC pharmacist counseling program
Executive Summary
Company agrees to pay $200,000 to Massachusetts under an agreement with state attorney general's office over payments made to pharmacists for prescriptions covered under the state Medicaid program. Miles admits no wrong-doing in connection with "cognitive services program" that provided pharmacists with $35 compensation payment for counseling services to patients who presented new Adalat CC (once-daily nifedipine) prescriptions. Miles previously settled with 11 state attorneys general, including Massachusetts, over privacy and restraint of trade issues raised by the discontinued program ("The Pink Sheet" April 11, p. 3)