J&J Overcharged for Drugs, AIDS Group Says in Lawsuit
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Johnson & Johnson was sued by an AIDS treatment advocacy group that said the drugmaker overcharged for medications purchased under a U.S. program.
In the lawsuit, the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation accused J&J, the world’s largest health products company, of failing to provide discounts required by federal law for medicines used by nonprofit charities that provide treatment for people with HIV, the AIDS-causing virus. The suit named New Brunswick, New Jersey-based J&J’s Centocor Ortho Biotech and Tibotec Therapeutics units.