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AstraZeneca and Cephalon Agree to Pay $46.5 Million and $7.5 Million,…
The Department of Justice announced recently that AstraZeneca agreed to pay the United States and participating states a…
High Prescribing Connecticut APRN Charged With Accepting Kickbacks; Comes…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Connecticut has announced that an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse…
OIG Continues Fight Against Medicare Part D Fraud and Abuse With Two New…
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the largest ever Medicare Fraud Strike Force sweep, with charges…
Big Day For Enforcement: DOJ Announces the Agency’s Largest Criminal…
Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced yesterday an…
HHS-OIG Fraud Alert: Physician Compensation Arrangements May Result in…
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a fraud alert entitled…
Doctor Involved in Physician-Owned Distributorship Pleads Guilty To…
Physician-owned distributorships (PODs), which are medical device distributors owned, at least in part, by physicians…
Medco Will Pay $7.9 Million to Resolve Kickback Allegations Related To…
Medco Health Solutions Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts Holding Company,…
FDA OPDP Issues Fifth Letter of Caution for the Year, Cites Oak…
Almost like clockwork, the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) has released its…
Update on the Medical Device Tax Repeal Efforts
The Medical Device Tax, instituted as part of the Affordable Care Act, is a tax of 2.3 percent on the sale price of medical device…
District Court Dismisses Chicago’s Painkiller Marketing Lawsuit…
District Court Judge Jorge Alonso of the Northern District of Illinois recently dismissed the City of Chicago’s lawsuit…