{"id":12156,"date":"2018-12-07T10:49:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12156"},"modified":"2018-12-07T10:49:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:49:49","slug":"a-unit-of-johnson-johnson-to-pay-360-million-to-resolve-charity-kickback-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12156","title":{"rendered":"A unit of Johnson &#038; Johnson to pay $360 million to resolve charity kickback probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Justice Department announced that Johnson &amp; Johnson until will pay the U.S. government $360 million to resolve an investigation into its financial support of a charity that helped Medicare patients cover out-of-pocket drug cots. The government said a subsidiary of J&amp;J used a charity as a conduit to improperly pay the copay obligations of Medicare patients using its pulmonary artery hypertension treatments. The government has stopped the charity, Caring Voice Coalition (CVC) because of concerns drugmakers had improper influence over it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-johnson-johnson-settlement\/jj-unit-to-pay-360-million-to-us-to-resolve-charity-kickback-probe-idUSKBN1O51XB?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=68143082&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_TmGviWraLidrt6QIe3DYTcziaId83PSkA6eyQHxHm1rmV5Z9zHbLMxAyKQrHoiz9iBDAj_46z4TzoUMzJ2d0WjwyBWA&amp;_hsmi=68143082\">Read article here\u2026<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/department-of-justice-seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9098\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/department-of-justice-seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/department-of-justice-seal.jpg 225w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/department-of-justice-seal-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department announced that Johnson &amp; Johnson until will pay the U.S. government $360 million to resolve an investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-activities","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12157,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions\/12157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}