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Corporate Integrity Agreement Between HHS Office of Inspector General and Merck & Co. Inc.

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Corporate Integrity Agreement Between the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and Merck & Co. Inc., February 7, 2008.

  • “Merck & Company has agreed to pay more than $650 million to resolve allegations that the pharmaceutical manufacturer failed to pay proper rebates to Medicaid and other government health care programs and paid illegal remuneration to health care providers to induce them to prescribe the company’s products, the Justice Department announced today. The allegations were brought in two separate lawsuits filed by whistleblowers under the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act.”
  • Merck to Pay More than $650 Million to Resolve Zocor, Pepcid False Claims Charges – 22 Corporate Crime Reporter 6, February 7, 2008: “Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey called it “one of the largest healthcare fraud settlements ever achieved by the Justice Department.”
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