Serono settles lawsuit alleging it paid doctors to prescribe
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 11:02 pm
Serono settles lawsuit alleging it paid doctors to prescribe MS drug Rebif
The Swiss drug giant Merck Serono S.A. will pay $44.3 million to the US government to settle a lawsuit that charged the company illegally funneled money to doctors to prescribe and promote their Multiple Sclerosis drug Rebif, according to the Department of Justice.
A Serono employee - a California based regional business director - blew the whistle on the company's alleged payments and filed a false claims lawsuit back in 2005, according to court documents.
Allegations in the court filings indicate the drug company paid a top prescriber of Rebif, often through a New York based Multiple Sclerosis clinic. The whistleblower claims Serono company management referred to the relationship by saying, "we have a whole money laundering thing going on," with the clinic. The complaint indicates that payments to the clinic totaled more than $300,000.... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/1901
The Swiss drug giant Merck Serono S.A. will pay $44.3 million to the US government to settle a lawsuit that charged the company illegally funneled money to doctors to prescribe and promote their Multiple Sclerosis drug Rebif, according to the Department of Justice.
A Serono employee - a California based regional business director - blew the whistle on the company's alleged payments and filed a false claims lawsuit back in 2005, according to court documents.
Allegations in the court filings indicate the drug company paid a top prescriber of Rebif, often through a New York based Multiple Sclerosis clinic. The whistleblower claims Serono company management referred to the relationship by saying, "we have a whole money laundering thing going on," with the clinic. The complaint indicates that payments to the clinic totaled more than $300,000.... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/1901