Sanofi to Pay $109 Million to Settle False Claims Case
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Sanofi, France’s biggest drugmaker, reached a settlement to pay $109 million over allegations that its U.S. units gave doctors free doses of a medicine to win their business and subvert Medicare’s drug reimbursement system.
Sanofi sales representatives entered into “illegal sampling arrangements” with physicians, giving them the arthritis drug Hyalgan as kickbacks and “promising to provide negotiated” amounts of the medication to lower its effective price in violation of the False Claims Act, the U.S. Justice Department said yesterday in a statement.