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Welcome to the McKesson Proposed Settlement Website
There is a class action lawsuit called New England Carpenters Health Benefits Fund,
et al. v. First DataBank, Inc. and McKesson Corporation, Case No. 05-11148-PBS,
which was approved by the federal court in Boston, Massachusetts. This lawsuit concerns how brand-name
drugs are priced.
Prescription drugs often are priced using certain benchmarks. The most common pricing
benchmark is called the Average Wholesale Price ("AWP"). AWP is often used in determining
how much insurance companies and other Third-Party Payors will reimburse for these
prescription drugs and the co-payment price that some consumers pay for them. The
lawsuit claims that two Defendants, McKesson Corporation ("McKesson"), a large drug
wholesaler, and First DataBank ("FDB"), a publisher of drug data, wrongfully inflated
the mark-up factor used by FDB to determine the AWP for certain prescription drugs
("Subject Drugs"). The lawsuit
claims that, as a result, many drug purchasers overpaid for these drugs. Both FDB
and McKesson deny any wrongdoing.
If you are a consumer and paid a percentage co-payments for any
of the Subject Drugs based
on AWP pricing between August 1, 2001 and March 15, 2005 and whose prescription
drug plan used FDB or Medi-Span databases for determining the AWP of the Subject Drugs that are included in the McKesson Class Action.
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If you are a consumer who was uninsured or underinsured at some
period from August 1, 2001 through January 23, 2009 and purchased any of the Subject Drugs at the uninsured or "cash" price.
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If you are a Third-Party Payor who reimbursed or paid for any
of the Subject Drugs based
on AWP pricing between August 1, 2001 and March 15, 2005 and used FDB or Medi-Span
databases for determining the AWP of the
Subject Drugs.
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IMPORTANT: THIS SITE IS SUPERVISED BY THE COURT AND IS ADMINISTERED BY AN
ADMINISTRATION FIRM THAT HANDLES ALL ASPECTS OF NOTICE AND CLAIM PROCESSING. THIS
IS THE ONLY AUTHORIZED WEB SITE FOR THIS LITIGATION. PLEASE DO NOT RELY UPON OTHER
SITES THAT SET OUT DIFFERENT AND UNAUTHORIZED INFORMATION.
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