Weighing in on the Recent Acquittals – Former HHS Inspector General Offers Practical Suggestions for Compliance Officers

By Thomas Sullivan Last updated May 5, 2018

Richard Kusserow served as Health and Human Services Inspector General from 1981 to 1992. In this article, he discusses the implications for compliance officers of the recent Warner Chilcott acquittals.

When asked if the recent acquittals of former Warner Chilcott president W. Carl Reichel and Vascular Solutions CEO Howard Root altered his initial views regarding the potential impact of the Yates Memo, former Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General (IG) Richard Kusserow succinctly replied, “Not really.”