Gilead Sciences will pay $202 million to resolve claims that it paid kickbacks to doctors
RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that Gilead Sciences will pay $202 million to resolve claims that it paid kickbacks to doctors in exchange for promoting its HIV medications, resulting in millions of dollars of false claims submitted to government health care programs, including North Carolina’s Medicaid program. North Carolina’s Medicaid program will receive $760,106 from the settlement in principle, which was reached in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice and 48 other states and came from a qui tam lawsuit. “Doctors are supposed to prescribe the medications that are best for patients – not the medication they get the biggest … Read More
