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November 4, 2013

Posted  January 22, 2016

Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay more than $2.2B to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from allegations relating to the prescription drugs Risperdal, Invega and Natrecor, including promotion for uses not approved as safe and effective by the FDA and payment of kickbacks to physicians and to the nation’s largest long-term care pharmacy provider. The global resolution is one of the largest health care fraud settlements in U.S. history, including criminal fines and forfeiture totaling $485M and civil settlements with the federal government and states totaling $1.72B. The allegations were first raised in a qui tam lawsuit filed under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. DOJ

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Off-Label and Unapproved Use, Pharma Fraud, Whistleblower Case,