HIV Drug Manufacturing Company Owes Big Money in Kickback Settlement Case
PENNSYLVANIA, JUL 16 – The $202 million settlement addresses illegal incentives that led to false claims in Medicaid and other federal programs from 2011 to 2017, with Pennsylvania receiving $1.28 million.
- This past week, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Pennsylvania will receive $1.28 million as part of a $202 million settlement with Gilead Sciences, Inc.
- From January 2011 to November 2017, Gilead Sciences, Inc. provided unlawful incentives including gifts, meals, and travel expenses, resulting in millions of dollars in false claims to government health programs.
- Investigators found more than 250 prescribers attended identical programs three or more times in six months, and providers received tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars plus trips to Hawaii, Miami, and New Orleans.
- These funds will support people living with HIV and bolstering prevention programs.
- The settlement provides $49 million for Medicaid programs nationwide, the remainder goes to Medicare, Tricare, and ADAP, and Rob Bonta said the Trump tax bill is expected to slash Medicaid funding by $1 trillion over a decade.
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D.C. to receive $300,000 from Gilead for ‘illegal kickback scheme’
D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb announced on July 15 that the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences will pay $316,413 to the District as part of a settlement of civil allegations that it engaged in an illegal kickback scheme with doctors to promote and sell its HIV medication. A statement released by Schwalb says Gilead allegedly violated D.C. and federal false claims laws “by paying doctors and other healthcare providers to promote and …


Foster City drugs giant Gilead to pay $202 million over alleged kickback scheme
Foster City pharmaceuticals giant Gilead Sciences has agreed to pay a $202 million settlement over allegations in a lawsuit by state and federal authorities that it paid doctors kickbacks, sent them on trips and fed them dinners at fancy restaurants to promote the company’s HIV drugs, used to treat the virus that causes AIDS. The lawsuit by California, 47 other states and the federal government alleged an unspecified number of “San Francisco doc…
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