Category: Judicial

Part 6 of 6—What Happens Next For Revlimid, Pomalyst, Thalomid, and 340B?

As we described in Parts 2 and 3 of this series, in 2018, an ex-Celgene vice president responsible for the company’s 340B program compliance alleged in a whistleblower

Part 5 of 6—Revlimid “didn’t get any better…. You just got better at making money”

Last September, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee released a 45-page report focused on Celgene and Bristol Myers Squibb’s (BMS’s) nearly two

Part 4 of 6—How Do Celgene’s Revlimid Policies Affect 340B Hospitals and Patient Care?

The impact on health care providers of being unable to access Revlimid at the 340B price is significant, financially and in terms of patient care, according

Part 3 of 6—The Path From Thalidomide, to Revlimid, to a 340B Whistleblower Lawsuit

The myeloma drugs Revlimid and Pomalyst are analogues of Thalomid, aka thalidomide—a drug that still haunts those who remember the late 1950s and early 1960s. Marketed

Part 2 of 6—A Pharmaceutical Industry Insider’s Claims of Massive Fraud Against 340B Providers

Editor’s note: We invited Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), which bought Celgene in November 2019, to respond to allegations of illegal or

Part 1 of 6—Why Can So Few 340B Hospitals Buy and Dispense the Highly Profitable Cancer Drug Revlimid?

Possibly more than a thousand hospitals in the 340B drug discount program can’t buy or dispense Revlimid, a widely-used oral drug