Tenet Healthcare Corp. has offered to pay $238 million to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit involving alleged kickbacks for maternity referrals by four of its Georgia hospitals. The Dallas-based hospital chain disclosed the preliminary settlement in its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results reported to the...
Tampa, FL – United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation (Adventist) has agreed to pay the government $2.09 million to resolve allegations that patients were administered portions of single-dose vials of chemotherapy drugs that were left over...
Companies Agree to Pay $230 Million U.S. Criminal Fine in Connection with Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Resolution; Largest Case Ever Brought under the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative Amsterdam-based VimpelCom Limited, the world’s sixth-largest telecommunications company and an issuer of publicly traded securities in the United States,...
Mount Sinai Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic Florida were two of 51 hospitals to reach settlements with the U.S. Department of Justice related to cardiac devices implanted in patients in violation of Medicare coverage requirements, the DOJ announced Wednesday. The DOJ reached combined settlements of...
Canadians are still paying more for generic drugs than those in foreign markets thanks to a pricing model that one expert calls "uniquely stupid." As outrage continues to gather in the US over "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli and price gouging, a new report released this week found...
A former Insys Therapeutics sales rep has pleaded guilty to violating federal kickback laws in connection with an alleged scheme to boost sales of an opioid painkiller. The guilty plea is the latest development in a contentious drama involving Insys Therapeutics and its marketing of Subsys....
The Department of Justice announced today that three importers and their owners – Ameri-Source International Inc., Ameri-Source Specialty Products Inc., Ameri-Source Holdings Inc., Ajay Goel and Thomas Diener – and a related importer, SMC Machining LLC, incorporated at Goel’s direction and formerly owned by his...
A Ninth Circuit panel has said a qui tam FCA case based on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans doesn't qualify, as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not agents of the U.S. government, even though they are majority-owned by the Uncle Sam. (U.S. ex...
Prescription drug spending in the United States rose 12 percent in 2014, reaching nearly $300 billion, the latest issue of the Journal of Managed Care and SpecialtyPharmacy showed. That 12 percent figure is backed by a 2015 study by the Office of the Actuary at the...
Montréal – Further to a thorough and rigorous analysis, the Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”) does not intend to offer financial rewards to whistleblowers who report violations of the laws administered by the AMF. The AMF closely monitored the whistleblower programs set up by other...