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Consumer group sues drug makers over coupons

By Linda A. Johnson

 |  Associated Press  

  March 08, 2012

Eight major drugmakers are being sued by a consumer coalition claiming the companies’ popular coupon programs, which cover much of the patient co-payment for hundreds of brand-name prescription medicines, are illegal. Community Catalyst alleges the increasingly common couponing programs appear to save patients money but increase overall health care costs significantly and violate federal bribery laws because they’re meant to conceal information about the payments from health insurance plans.

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