$39 Million Settlement Resulting from Kickback Allegations Resulting from Physician Speaker Fees
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that Daiichi Sankyo Inc.,a global pharmaceutical company based in New Jersey, agreed to pay the U.S.and State Medicaid programs $39 million in a settlement agreement regardingallegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying physicians to prescribeits drugs. Those payments constituted illegal kickbacks, according to the DOJ. […]