The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday that it and 16 states had joined two whistleblower lawsuits filed against Wyeth which allege the drugmaker failed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in rebates to Medicaid. The lawsuits accuse Wyeth of giving hospitals steep discounts on the drugs Protonix Oral and Protonix IV, which reduce stomach acid, with the goal of winning the retail business of the same patients once they were released from the hospital.

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The lawsuits, which were originally brought in Massachusetts by two whistleblowers, allege that Wyeth failed to give the Medicaid program the same discounts that it gave private hospitals, the Justice Department said in a statement. The result was that Wyeth allegedly failed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in rebates due to state Medicaid programs for the drugs. Medicaid is the joint federal-state healthcare program for the poor.

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