{"id":16149,"date":"2017-11-21T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T13:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/21\/drug-firm-concordia-overcharged-nhs-with-6000-price-rise-says-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T13:50:57","slug":"drug-firm-concordia-overcharged-nhs-with-6000-price-rise-says-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=16149","title":{"rendered":"Drug firm Concordia overcharged NHS with 6,000% price rise, says watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CMA accuses Canadian firm of overcharging by \u00a3100m on thyroid drug with price per pack rising from \u00a34.46 to \u00a3258 in 10 yearsConcordia International, the Canadian drug company, has overcharged the NHS by more than \u00a3100m in the past decade for a life-changing thyroid drug, according to Britain\u2019s competition watchdog.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had provisionally found that Concordia had \u201cabused its dominant position to overcharge the NHS\u201d by hiking the price of liothyronine, used to treat patients with an underactive thyroid, by nearly 6,000% between 2007 and 2017. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2017\/nov\/21\/drug-firm-concordia-overcharged-nhs-with-6000-price-rise\" target=\"_blank\">Drug firm Concordia overcharged NHS with 6,000% price rise, says watchdog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMA accuses Canadian firm of overcharging by \u00a3100m on thyroid drug with price per pack rising from \u00a34.46 to \u00a3258 in 10 yearsConcordia International, the Canadian drug company, has overcharged the NHS by more than \u00a3100m in the past decade for a life-changing thyroid drug, according to Britain\u2019s competition watchdog.The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}