- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2019-09-05T20:16:00
Pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt is set to pay $15.4 million to the Justice Department to resolve allegations of illegal kickbacks to doctors in the form of lavish dinners and entertainment.
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Pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt, fresh out of its second bankruptcy, was spared having to pay a $40 million penalty levied by the Securities and Exchange Commission for alleged disclosure and accounting failures related to its underpaying of Medicaid rebates.
Pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt agreed to pay approximately $260 million as part of a settlement announced by the Department of Justice for underpaying Medicaid rebates and violating kickback laws regarding its drug Acthar.
The Department of Justice has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit against Mallinckrodt over allegations the drug maker knowingly underpaid Medicaid rebates it owed due to significant price increases to its drug Acthar.
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