Topeka ? A Florida company has disputed accusations that it tried to sell flu vaccine in Kansas at highly inflated prices.

Fort Lauderdale-based ASAP Meds Inc., which does business as Meds-Stat, was sued this week by Atty. Gen. Phill Kline on allegations of violating the Kansas Consumer Protection Act’s prohibition on price-gouging.

The lawsuit alleges that Meds-Stat proposed on Oct. 8 to sell a 10-dose vial of flu vaccine to a Kansas City, Kan., pharmacy for $900, up from $85 a week earlier.

Florida’s attorney general sued Meds-Stat on Wednesday, also alleging price-gouging.

In a statement late Wednesday, the company said the “facts set forth in those lawsuits are incorrect in many respects and fail to accurately reflect the transaction at issue.” The statement added that the company would “vigorously defend its actions and is confident that it will prevail on the merits of these cases.”

A national flu vaccine shortage developed last week when British regulators shut down shipments from Chiron Corp., which had made 48 million flu shots in an English factory that were destined for the United States. Some batches of the vaccine were contaminated with a worrisome bacteria.

The surprise decision cut the U.S. supply of flu shots almost in half.