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Biogen agrees to pay $900 million in largest FCA Settlement Ever Secured without Government’s Intervention

FDA Law Blog

district court of Massachusetts by former employee and whistleblower Michael Bawduniak in April 2012 as a qui tam action. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have aggressively pursued antikickback cases in the healthcare industry. Wasserstein — On September 26, 2022, Biogen Inc.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

There was this big thing called the CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, started in 2012. We should be able to trust all the data that comes from our governing board. The whole focus was to reduce antipsychotic prescribing. So the concern is that people would just potentially shift and be using alternative medications.

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Loss of DEI Hurts Everyone: Farah Stockman, Ali Thomas, Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Now to the federal government that is going way beyond what I think people truly understand. So Shalonda Young was the very first black woman to serve as the OMB director in charge of the federal government’s budget. And there was never a federal government shutdown during the Obama administration. Well played.

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