Settlement in Medicare kickback scheme

To settle allegations of enabling Medicare kickbacks, the Chronic Disease Fund, Inc. (CDF), and Patient Access Network Foundation (PANF) will pay a combined $6 million. The government’s allegations made it plan that CDF and PANF functioned not as independent charities, but as pass-throughs for specific pharmaceutical companies to pay kickbacks to Medicare patients taking their drugs, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute that bans drug makers and third party co-pay foundations from paying any remuneration to induce Medicare patients to purchase the companies drugs. Read article here…

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