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Federal Judge OKs J&J's Suit to Proceed Over Depleted Patient Financial Assistance for Costly Prescription Meds

"The inflated co-pays are key to the alleged scheme because the higher amounts essentially force patients into the program," Judge John Michael Vazquez wrote. "The second part of the purported SaveOnSP Program is to target patients. Plaintiff alleges that defendant uses the threat of the artificially inflated copay to coerce patients into enrolling in the SaveOnSP Program."

January 30, 2023 at 05:15 PM

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Colleen Murphy

A New Jersey district court has denied a motion to dismiss a suit filed by Johnson & Johnson that alleges that the company has paid significantly more in co-pay assistance than it otherwise would have as a result of defendant SaveOnSP's services.