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

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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

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And for that reason, there was actually an enormous lawsuit, and the manufacturer was fined, now I think 20 years ago, in the millions and millions of dollars for off-label prescribing. There was this big thing called the CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, started in 2012.