Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has agreed to pay more than $642 million to settle a lawsuit that accused it of paying kickbacks to doctors, among other allegations, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.
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A former NFL player convicted of health care fraud and ordered to pay over $18 million in restitution for taking illegal kickbacks asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to toss out his 22-year prison sentence.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a suit against Chevron claiming the company funded acts of terrorism through surcharges of Iraqi crude oil, which were remitted to former Iraq President Saddam Hussein. While Chevron knew a “kickback from its purchase” would be end up in Iraq, it did not necessarily know those funds were specifically used to finance terrorism, the court ruled.
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A San Francisco-based health information technology company will pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil charges that it helped set up an electronic health records system that encouraged physicians to prescribe opioids to patients who might not need them, federal prosecutors in Vermont said Monday.
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The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company was sentenced to 5½ years in prison Thursday for orchestrating a bribery and kickback scheme prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis.
Read moreAttorneys for a former Arkansas state senator and his associate argued before the Eighth Circuit on Thursday that their convictions related to a kickback scheme should be dismissed.
Read moreFour former employees claim in federal court that Life Spine fired them illegally for objecting to a 7-year-long “extensive kickback scheme in which the company paid surgeons … to induce those surgeons to use Life Spine’s products,” for which the company had to pay a $5.5 million penalty.
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The highest ranking United Auto Workers official yet to face punishment for his role in a sprawling corruption scandal pleaded guilty Wednesday, as the case continues to rock the foundation of one of the most powerful unions in the nation.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Alaska Airlines of encouraging online customers to buy travel insurance from its preferred provider, nonparty Allianz Global Assistance, from whom it allegedly receives kickbacks.
Read morePacific Health Corp. and Los Angeles Doctors Hospital Corp. must reimburse Medicare and Medi-Cal to the tune of $560,000, a federal judge ruled, siding with a nurse who said the defendants improperly committed patients to locked psychiatric units in exchange for kickbacks.
Read moreOpioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics agreed to pay $225 million to settle a U.S federal government probe of the company’s marketing and kickback scheme involving the distribution of a sublingual opioid spray, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Read moreAdvancing false-claims allegations that pharmaceutical companies paid kickbacks to providers that prescribe its anti-inflammatory drug, a federal judge found that one could conclude the government’s “true motivation [in moving to dismiss] is animus toward the relator.”
Read moreCovidien LP will pay $17.5 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act to induce physicians to buy its vein ablation products, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco said.
Read moreFernando Barroso Sr. and Theodore Bauer launched a six-year scheme that resulted in more than $1.2 million in phony invoices for work that was never performed.
Read moreDepending on who you ask, a case on appeal Friday in the 11th Circuit is either the latest chapter in a saga of brazen health care fraud by Hospital Corporation of America or the work of an overzealous whistleblower looking to capitalize on the company’s past misdeeds.
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The Securities Exchange Commission claims in court that stock trader Adam Rentzer, 52, paid undisclosed cash kickbacks to a broker
Read moreConnecticut brought a suit Tuesday that accuses Assured Rx, NLM LLC and 12 people of costing state taxpayers $11 million in a prescription drug kickback scheme.
Read moreA former Allergan employee should not have been allowed to advance a whistleblower suit by amending a complaint that was considered untimely, the Second Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe AIDS Healthcare Foundation did not violate the Anti-Kickback Statute when it gave its employees bonuses for referring HIV-positive patients to its own healthcare services, the 11th Circuit ruled Tuesday.
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