{"id":13146,"date":"2019-05-01T15:33:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T19:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13146"},"modified":"2019-05-01T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T19:33:59","slug":"pharmaceutical-company-agrees-to-pay-17-5-million-to-resolve-allegations-of-kickbacks-to-medicare-patients-and-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13146","title":{"rendered":"Pharmaceutical Company Agrees to Pay $17.5 Million to Resolve Allegations of Kickbacks to Medicare Patients and Physicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.justice.gov)<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department announced today that US WorldMeds LLC (USWM) has agreed to pay $17.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7 3729\u00a0<i>et seq<\/i>., by paying kickbacks to patients and physicians to improperly induce prescriptions of its drugs, Apokyn\u00ae and Myobloc\u00ae.\u00a0USWM is a pharmaceutical manufacturer headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.\u00a0\u00a0 Continue reading press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/pharmaceutical-company-agrees-pay-175-million-resolve-allegations-kickbacks-medicare-patients\">release here&#8230;<\/a><\/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><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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>(Source &#8211; www.justice.gov) The Justice Department announced today that US WorldMeds LLC (USWM) has agreed to pay $17.5 million to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19,6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146","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=13146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13147,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146\/revisions\/13147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}