The city is the first in the country to bring a price-fixing suit over the cost of insulin.
The city of Cleveland has filed a federal lawsuit against several drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers over insulin prices, alleging a pricing scheme that caused an exorbitant rise in insulin prices and cost the city millions in prescription benefit payouts. The city is represented by the Cleveland Law Department as well as several private firms.
Several high-profile companies including Eli Lilly and Company, Novo Nordisk Inc, Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC, Evernorth Health Inc, Express Scripts Inc, Medco Health Solutions, ESI Mail Pharmacy Services Inc, CVS Pharmacy Inc, Caremark LLC, UnitedHealth Group and Optum Inc are named as defendants in the lawsuit, which is more than 150 pages long.
After Canadian scientists pioneered insulin production in 1922, they sold the patents to the University of Toronto for just $1 each. The university then licensed insulin manufacturing to Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk—both of which are named in the suit. Under this arrangement, companies can patent changes made to prescription insulin and extend patents.
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