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False Claims Act Update
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Taxpayers
Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. |
WWW.TAF.ORG
January 25, 2010 |
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 DoJ Joins Case Against J &
J
DoJ has
joined two False Claims Act cases against drug
manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and
its subsidiaries, alleging the companies paid millions in kickbacks to Omnicare
in order to get Omnicare to operate as an "extension of [Johnson &
Johnson] sales force" in dispensing the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal
to nursing home patients. >>
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 Bile
Stents Marketed Off-label
The U.S. Department of
Justice is actively investigating a False Claims Act complaint filed
by Kevin N. Colquitt, a former regional sales director for Guidant.
The complaint alleges that Guidant and Abbott, which acquired
Guidant’s
stent
operations, as well as
Boston Scientific
and Cordis (a division of
Johnson & Johnson), made bile duct stents they
illegally marketed
off-label for vascular use. A 2008 study found that deaths and injuries occurred as a result
of the off-label use of biliary stents. >>
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 Boston Scientific To Pay $22
Million
Boston Scientific has agreed to pay $22 million to resolve
a False Claims Act case in which its Guidant subsidiary was
charged with paying kickbacks of $1,000 to $1,500 to doctors in
order to
get them to use their heart pacemakers. >>
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 New
Jersey FCA Used to Go After Fraud at Methadone Clinics
New Jersey's Medicaid Fraud Control
Unit is using the New Jersey False Claims Act to go after seven
heroin treatment centers which contructed three different types of billing schemes
in order to improperly bill Medicaid more than $3.5 million. >>
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 Dental Company Nailed for
$24 Million Medicaid Fraud
National Dental
Management Company has agreed to pay $24 million to resolve
three FCA cases charging the company with billing for medically unnecessary
dental services performed on children insured by Medicaid.
Three relators will split $2.4
million from the federal share of the settlement.
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 Big Iraq Settlement on Horizon?
A $600 million Iraq war fraud settlement may be on the horizon.
Kuwait's Public Warehousing Company (also known as Agility)
appears to have told Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas that the
company expects to pay between $500 million and $600 million to
settle a food-fraud case, provided the U.S. Government agrees to
the terms. >>
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