Earlier this year, Zimmer paid
$169.5 million to settle False Claims Act
charges that the company was paying kickbacks to doctors and
hospitals in order to get them to implant their
orthopedic devices. Now
Zimmer is poised to pay an additional $250 million or so in
order to get out of long-term kickback/referral contracts
it signed
with hundreds of surgeons across the U.S. as part of the
institutionalization of the kickback scam. Since Zimmer was
one of only five companies nailed for
orthopedic kickbacks, look for
other companies to perhaps follow suit.
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 Biovail
To Pay $25 MillionBiovail Corporation says it will pay $25 million to settle criminal allegations related to kickbacks paid to doctors in order to induce them to prescribe Cardizem. The probe began after reports in The Wall Street Journal and Barron's revealed Biovail was paying doctors up to $1,000 each to write prescriptions for Cardizem LA and write reports on the drug -- a kind of Phase IV marketing scam. >> To read more |
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 Lockheed
Martin
Space Systems to Pay $10.5 Million Lockheed Martin Space Systems has agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle a case alleging the company submitted false invoices in order to receive early progress payments. The fraud is connected to a multi-billion dollar contract for the Titan IV space launch program. >> To read more |
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 IIF
to Pay $8.9 MillionIIF Data Solutions has agreed to pay $8.9 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit related to bill padding in connection to defense work. >> To read more |
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 Baptist
Health South
to Pay $7.675 Million Baptists Health South has agreed to pay $7.65 million to settle claims it violated the False Claims Act and the Stark Statute by making excessive payments to an oncology group that was a source of patient referrals to two of its hospitals. >> To read more |
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 Zimmer
to Pay Docs to Get Out of Kickback Scheme |
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 Tariff
FCA
Case
SettledIntertex International, J.J. Basics, and Red Zone, have agreed to pay $2.8 million to settle a case in which the companies fraudulently relabeled as made in Korea goods that were made in China. >> To read more |
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CSC
to Pay $1.37 MillionComputer Sciences Corp. has agreed to pay $1.37 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit in which the company paid kickbacks and entered into improper relationships in order to get business. >> To read more |
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