DOJ Announces $1.3 Billion Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action
The Department of Justice has announced that charges have been filed against 412 defendants, across 41 districts, to recoup approximately $1.3 billion in false billings to…
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Drexel University Study Shows Two Thirds of US Patients See Physicians Paid by Drug Companies
In a recently released study conducted by Genevieve Pham-Kanter, PhD , an assistant professor in Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health, 65% of patients visited…
Read More »Walgreen Accepts Responsibility for $50 Million Kickback Case
The United States Attorney for New York, Preet Bharara announced a settlement of $50 million against Walgreen Co. (“Walgreens”), the national retail drug chain which…
Read More »Update on Pharmaceutical Company Insys Kickback Investigation
On June 25, 2015, the New York Times reported that Heather Alfonso, a Connecticut advanced practice registered nurse, had pled guilty to federal charges of…
Read More »Government Uncovers TRICARE $100M Compounding Fraud Scheme
Recently, twelve defendants including doctors, pharmacy owners and marketers were charged in a $100 million TRICARE compounding fraud scheme according to John Parker, U.S. Attorney…
Read More »Baxter pays more than $18 million to resolve cGMP Criminal and Civil Liability
DOJ recently announced that Baxter Healthcare Corporation agreed to pay $18.158 million to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from Baxter’s failure to follow current Good…
Read More »Lab Fraud: Will a $256 Million Settlement Stop It?
In fiscal year 2016, Millennium Health (formerly Millennium Laboratories), agreed to pay the Government $256 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act. …
Read More »The 2017 Healthcare Whistleblower: Agent of Change
New research by Jaron H. Wilde at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business concludes that: …after truth tellers come forward with information about wrong doing…
Read More »Kickbacks Crackdown Worldwide: Will Pharma Finally Get the Message?
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that six employees of Novartis have been indicted in South Korea amidst allegations that the company paid $2.3 million…
Read More »Pharma Kickbacks to Physicians Could Trigger False Claims Act Conspiracy Liability
For years, courts have muddied the judicial waters when it comes to the appropriate pleading standards for False Claims Act complaints. Most of this confusion…
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