Mass. pharma company will pay $20.75M to settle FCA lawsuit
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Aaron Nicodemus2020-08-25T16:50:00
A Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company will pay $20.75 million settle a whistleblower’s allegations that the company knowingly promoted misleading instructions for a skin lesion drug that caused doctors to submit false claims to Medicare.
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