# RICO - Bayer, Abbott - Test Strips

**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/rico-bayer-abbott-test-strips/11432
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA
**Created:** [June 3, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/rico-bayer-abbott-test-strips/11432 "2021-06-03T00:24:15Z")
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### Author: ![jim26](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/jim26/32/9780_2.png) [@jim26](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/jim26)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/rico-bayer-abbott-test-strips/11432/1 "2021-06-03T00:24:15Z")

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I saw this today with the scheme that drug companies and PBMs run on consumers. What I took from this wasn’t the merits of their case were wrong, but the wrong person (third party payer) filed the case. Who protecting these folks?-

> **[Bayer, J&J, others escape RICO claims over glucose test strips](https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN2DD4KO)**
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> Bayer Healthcare, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories and Roche Diagnostics have won dismissal of federal racketeering claims accusing them of inflating the prices of glucose test strips, though they still face state law claims.