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On November 7, 2016, medical device company Biocompatibles Inc., a subsidiary of BTG plc agreed to pay $25 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by causing false claims to be submitted to government health care programs. [49]
[25] The False Claims Act requires a separate penalty for each violation of the statute. [26] Under the Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act, [24] False Claims Act penalties are periodically adjusted for inflation. [26] In 2020, the penalties range from $11,665 to $23,331 per violation. [27] Certain claims are not actionable, including:
The settlement amount includes both the civil (False Claims Act) settlement and criminal fine. Glaxo's $3 billion settlement included the largest civil False Claims Act settlement on record, [ 1 ] and Pfizer’s $2.3 billion ($3.5 billion in 2022) settlement including a record-breaking $1.3 billion criminal fine. [ 2 ]
BNSF Railway filed a lawsuit against the clinic under the federal False Claims Act in 2019. ... to additional penalties. Under the False Claims Act, the railway could be eligible for 15% to 25% of ...
The pharmacy chain was accused of submitting false payment claims to Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs between 2009 and 2020 for prescriptions that were processed but never ...
False Claims Act/FDCA 2012 4 4 (tie) Depakote: Abbott Laboratories [8] $1,500,000,000 $800 million civil ($1.5 billion with criminal component) Off-label promotion False Claims Act/FDCA 2009 5 4 (tie) Zyprexa: Eli Lilly [9] $1,450,000,000 $800 million civil ($1.45 billion with criminal component) Off-label promotion False Claims Act/FDCA 2008 10 5
Almost 200 people have been charged in a nationwide operation probing false health care claims involving approximately $2.75 billion in losses, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday.
GSK settled the whistleblowers’ lawsuits for a total of $1.017 billion out of the $3 billion settlement, the largest civil False Claims Act settlement to date. [23] Pfizer $2.3 billion settlement: Pfizer settled multiple civil and criminal allegations for $2.3 billion in the largest case of pharmaceutical and health care fraud in US