GlaxoSmithKline LLC has agreed to pay $3B to settle civil and criminal allegations that it illegally promoted certain prescription medications, engaged in false price reporting practices, and failed to report certain safety information. This is the biggest health care fraud settlement in our country’s history and the largest payment that a drug company has ever agreed to pay. Glaxo has also ...
Roche has agreed to pay $20M to settle a whistleblower complaint filed by an ex-manager who claimed that the drug Rituxan was marketed off-label and that Medicaid and Medicare ended up making payments for the immunosupressant that were unnecessary because of Roche is a unit of Genentech. Per the Pennsylvania whistleblower lawsuit, which was filed by former sales development senior manager John ...