According to the government, the alleged kickback scheme caused the submission of false claims. Relators who brought the underlying qui tam suit will receive over $4.7 million of the settlement payment.[30] On November 9, a pharmaceutical manufacturer agreed to pay $12.7 million to resolve ...
Represented a defense contractor in False Claims Act case involving allegations of falsified weapons qualifications in Kabul, Afghanistan, resulting in favorable settlement of all claims. Represented pharmaceutical, medical device, and health care technology companies and executives in non-public investigations...
U.S. Intervenes in False Claims Suits Against Pharmaceutical Companies Posted: June 16, 2019 The Department of Justice announced last week that the United States has filed a complaint in intervention against Smart Pharmacy Inc., and SP2 LLC, two compounding pharmacies located in Jacksonville, ...
False Claims ActDOJThis article criticizes the shift in focus from correction and compliance to punishment of pharmaceutical companies allegedly violating the Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) prohibitions on unlawful drug promotion. Traditionally, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...
The case demonstrates that the Civil War-era False Claims Act can be used to penalize pharmaceutical companies that use slick marketing tactics to avoid mandatory drug safety warnings and patient protections required by REMS. REMS was enacted by Congress in 2007, amidst an avalanche of media report...
The pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy chains, and individual pharmacies have all come under scrutiny using the Federal False Claims Act (FCA).4 The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently noted that over the past 10 years, the pharmaceutical industry was one of the largest business categories to ente...
On June 28, a surgery center and its affiliated outpatient surgery provider agreed to pay $3.4 million to resolve allegations that the companies submitted claims for kidney stone procedures that were not medically justified and also engaged in a kickback scheme. One of the surgery centers allegedly...
incentives for whistleblowers and the possibility of obtaining treble damages, businesses, particularly pharmaceutical, medical device and other health care and life sciences companies, are increasingly finding themselves under investigation or in litigation for alleged violations of the False Claims Act. ...
The False Claims Act states that it is illegal for companies to knowingly submit fraudulent Medicare or Medicaid claims. As both EHR implementation and telehealth use have expanded in the past few years, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has observedhigh levels of healthcare fraud, pr...
two former employees of Smart Pharmacy. The lawsuits were filed under the qui tam or whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act, which permit private parties to sue on behalf of the United States for false claims and to receive a share of any recovery. The Act permits the United Stat...