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Pharmaceutical Companies to Pay $1.2B in Medicare Fraud


— June 24, 2003

That includes more than $110 million to the whistleblower who initiated the suit, which alleges that the pharmaceutical companies offered illegal bribes to doctors to prescribe their drugs, coached them on how to cheat medicare, and did other naughty things. Not bad for a day’s work . . . . Law.com has the tawdry details here.


That includes more than $110 million to the whistleblower who initiated the suit, which alleges that the pharmaceutical companies offered illegal bribes to doctors to prescribe their drugs, coached them on how to cheat medicare, and did other naughty things. Not bad for a day’s work . . . . Law.com has the tawdry details here.

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