In Brief: J&J Health Care Systems

Executive Summary

J&J Health Care Systems: Chairman Dennis Longstreet was in error when he said at the Alex. Brown health care conference May 17 that Johnson & Johnson had a contract for managing quinolone use at Group Health of Puget Sound ("The Pink Sheet" May 22, p. 9). J&J had no such contract with Group Health or with any other managed care organization. J&J is said to have bid on a quinolone management contract for the Seattle-based HMO, but the bid was rejected. The J&J disease management group is performing antibiotic cost management in hospital settings, the company says...