Lipitor Payments Under Medicaid Vary By 12% – IG
Executive Summary
Some states paid as much as 12% more than the lowest paying states for identical units of Pfizer's Lipitor in fiscal year 2001, a report from the HHS Office of Inspector General concludes
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