Amgen accused on the privacy of patients
The federal Attorney-General consider a woman Mont Vale $ 16 million was brought, that the pharmaceutical giant said that she and other representatives of medical data confidential search for new patients for their preparation during the psoriasis.
Elena Ferrante said in her complaint, she was fired from California Amgen established after refusing to participate in “immoral and overly aggressive marketing tactics.
According to the complaint, a manager at Amgen responsible Ferrante and other employees to seek medical records in doctors’ offices to identify patients with moderate psoriasis. Then they were allegedly encouraging doctors to sign letters, pre-written by Amgen, insurance companies require to pay Enbrel rules for these patients, the complaint said.
The company has been trying to use Enbrel in patients with mild psoriasis. The preparation was originally developed for the treatment of psoriasis severe psoriasis and arthritis, a degenerative disease of the joints and skin.Illicit consideration of patient information violated the confidentiality of patients and a federal law on the protection of privacy acts of health.
Members of New Jersey Attorney General’s Office Anne Milgram, a fraud investigator consumers interviewed Ferrante end of December, according to court documents.”She contacted me and we discussed the case and the bad Ferrante’s complaint, in my office,” Lydia Cotz, Ferrante’s lawyer, said in an interview.
In a Follow-up call last week, said Cotz, she asked investigators of the State, as you Amgen with other sellers.Kelly Ann Bird, a lawyer from Newark to Amgen, went to the notice.
A spokesman for the Attorney General also had no comment.Officials police have been developed on medical equipment, pharmaceutical and policy makers in New Jersey. In September Milgram form a task force to examine how the pharmaceutical and medical products companies use gifts and other benefits to influence the doctor-patient relationship, we can estimate that the disclosure of data and the use of new therapies.
Amgen, Biotech, which is based in Thousand Oaks, reported $ 14.3 billion of total turnover for the year 2006, including $ 2.74 billion turnover Enbrel.A proof, Cotz, copies of messages from a district leader Amgen said that the distribution of employees, as they speak of Medical Affairs Head of how the research of memory for patients with psoriasis new forms clients.
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