The U.S. Justice Department has announced multiple high-profile legal actions involving significant financial settlements and allegations of fraud. Eight individuals have been charged in a scheme that allegedly defrauded Medicaid of $68 million through a social adult day care and home health care operation. In a separate case, Teva Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $450 million to settle allegations related to kickbacks and price-fixing, including a $25 million payment to resolve claims of conspiring with other generic drug companies to fix prices for three drugs. Additionally, Magellan Diagnostics has been ordered to pay $32.7 million after a federal judge accepted its plea agreement for concealing a malfunction in lead-testing devices, which resulted in thousands of patients receiving inaccurate results. These cases highlight ongoing issues of fraud and misconduct within the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.
Teva agreed to pay $450 million to resolve claims it used charities that help cover Medicare patients' out-of-pocket drug costs to pay kickbacks to boost its drug sales and that it conspired to fix prices for generic drugs. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: https://t.co/aq1ioam3fY https://t.co/SLo32FdZti
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Teva also agreed to pay $25 million to resolve allegations it conspired with other generic drug companies to fix prices for three drugs. https://t.co/NrGCexIhWG