Bayer agreed to pay $40 million to settle allegations its sales team paid kickbacks to hospitals and doctors for prescribing its drugs and that the pharmaceuticals company downplayed risks regarding certain of its offerings.
Bayer’s alleged misconduct concerning the drugs Trasylol, Avelox, and Baycol resulted in hospitals and doctors filing false claims to Medicaid and Medicare and violating the laws of 20 states and the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice said in a press release Friday.
