Jazz Pharmaceuticals Sets Aside $57M to Settle DOJ Probe
Posted 05/9/18
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Plc disclosed yesterday it has reached a tentative agreement to pay $57 million to resolve a Justice Department probe over its donations to charities that reduce drug prices for Medicare patients. The company manufactures Xyrem, a costly drug used to treat narcolepsy.
Jazz had previously received multiple DOJ subpoenas concerning its charitable donations and announced the agreement in principle...
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Massachusetts-based medical device manufacturer Alere Inc. and its subsidiary Alere San Diego have agreed to pay the United States $33.2 million to resolve allegations that Alere caused hospitals to submit false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal healthcare programs by knowingly selling materially unreliable point-of-care diagnostic testing devices, the Justice...
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The New York Times reported on Friday that Martin Shkreli, the former pharmaceutical executive nicknamed “Pharma Bro” was sentenced to seven years in prison related to his involvement in pharmaceutical company Retrophin and two hedge funds he operated. Shkreli is best known for raising the price of Daraprim, a drug to treat toxoplasmosis, by 5000% in 2015. In August, Shkreli...
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After twenty hours of debate, the Greek Parliament has 
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On Wednesday, former pharmaceutical sales representative Steven Butcher admitted to running a $45 million scheme to swindle both federally-funded and private health care benefit programs. Butcher was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, a law designed to remove financial incentives...
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On Monday, a federal jury in Miami unanimously convicted Monty Grow of running a compound pharmaceutical drug conspiracy that bilked $20 million from TRICARE, a healthcare program for military members and their families. Grow was a star linebacker at the University of Florida in the early 1990s and spent two seasons as a cornerback in the NFL.
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A Louisiana federal judge has sentenced Dr. Frederick Floyd to 10 years in prison for operating two New Orleans-based “pill mills.” Last September, Floyd pleaded guilty to dispensing millions of dosages of oxycodone, fentanyl and other addictive drugs to patients. The special agent in charge of the DEA’s New Orleans Field Division noted that Floyd’s “disgraceful...
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A Lenior City, Tennessee, chiropractor has paid $1.45 million, plus interest, to resolve False Claims Act violations. Matthew Anderson and his management company, PMC LLC, managed four pain clinics in Tennessee, most recently known as; Cookeville Center for Pain Management; Spinal Pain Solutions in Harriman; Preferred Pain Center of Grundy County in Gruetli Laager; and McMinnville...