May 10, 2023
When sophisticated drug and device companies have confronted deadly diseases and daunting approval standards, they've hired the brightest scientific and legal minds — or bribed prescribers with cash, liquor, steaks, vacations and lap dances. The latter approach undergirds a landmark law that has been fueling litigation for 50 years and enters its next half-century chasing a new generation of camouflaged kickbacks.
February 06, 2019
A health records company will pay more than $57.2 million to end claims in Vermont federal court that it violated the False Claims Act by hiding from its health-care provider clients that its electronic health records program was not up to snuff, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday.