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J&J sues US over hospital drug-discounting programme

J&J sues US over hospital drug-discounting programme
Major drug manufacturers have to give hospitals serving poorer people major discounts. (Image: Unsplash)
The Wall Street Journal
By Peter LoftusJohnson & Johnson launched a legal challenge against a federal health agency blocking the company’s quest to tighten the way it provides lucrative drug discounts to hospitals.J&J filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington on Tuesday against the heads of the US Department of Health and Human Services and one of its agencies, seeking a court ruling that says J&J’s plan is legal and to prevent the agency from rejecting it.The lawsuit escalates the pharmaceutical industry’s fight to rein in the feder...

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