Dr. Michael Lee Cummings, of Albany Kentucky, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, as well as three years of supervised release and a $400,000 fine after pleading guilty to 13 counts of illegally prescribing controlled substances. The investigation of Cummings began in 2015 after it was found that many of his patients...
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Category: Pharmaceutical
Birmingham Doctor and Nurse Convicted of Health Care Fraud, Unlawful Drug Distribution, and Money Laundering
Dr. Patrick Ifediba, 60, and his sister, Ngozi Ozuligbo, were convicted for health care fraud, unlawful drug distribution, and money laundering revolving around a massive scheme that garnered nearly $8 million in fraudulent funds.
According to the Department of Justice, Ifediba was operating as a doctor of internal medicine...
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Novartis sets aside $700 million for possible settlement over DOJ charges of millions paid to docs for sale if its drugs
Pharmaceutical drugmaker Novartis announced it has set aside $700 million for a possible settlement of a Department of Justice lawsuit in which it is charged that the company paid hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to doctors to induce them into prescribing drugs to patients to boost their sales. It is not...
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People With Diabetes Continue to Die After Skyrocketing Insulin Prices Forces Many to Ration doses
Jesimya David Scherer-Radcliffe, 21, passed away just a month after the loss of his health insurance forced him to begin rationing insulin to treat his diabetes. However, Scherer-Radcliff’s death is not the only of its kind, with insulin prices doubling from 2012 to 2016 causing many individuals to ration the drug.
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Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc. Will Pay Over $7 Million in Civil Suit Following Allegations of Price Fixing
Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc., a New Jersey-based company, has been ordered to pay more than $7 million after being charged with conspiring with its competitors to fix prices, rig bids, and allocate customers.
According to the Department of Justice, Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc. was part of an antitrust conspiracy which involved several...
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CEO and CFO of Guaranteed Returns pharmaceutical distributor convicted of fraud and will serve time in prison and will pay $115 million
CEO and CFO Will Face Time in Prison Following Massive Pharmaceutical Scheme Resulting in Millions of Stolen Funds
Guaranteed Returns, a reverse pharmaceutical distributor, and the company's senior management have been convicted in trial following allegations of wire fraud, mail fraud, obstruction of justice, theft of government property, money laundering, and false statements...
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Medical Sherlock Holmes true life story — boy dying saved by Phildelphia doctor’s creativity and Zebrafish
STAT News has an interesting and instructive medical story about some creative doctors at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. It is worth reading! https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/01/precision-medicine-zebrafish-helped-save-boys-life/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&utm_campaign=97b7cbd0f4-Daily_Recap&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-97b7cbd0f4-118516237
A boy was terribly ill. His legs and belly were swelling, and his lungs kept filling with fluid. He was going to die. ...
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Opioid painkiller manufacturer Insys Therapeutics pays $225 million to end criminal and civil cases on kickbacks to docs for increased doses
Opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics will pay $225 million to resolve civil and criminal complaints stemming from Insys’s payment of kickbacks and other unlawful marketing practices in connection with the marketing of Subsys. Insys’s drug Subsys is a...
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Licensed Pharmacist indicted for fraudulent billing of antipsychotic medication clozapine and sedative alprazolam to people who had already died. Costs to Medicare, Medicaid Millions
Nabil Fakih, a licensed pharmacist, Michigan Board of Pharmacy member, and owner of a Dearborn Heights drug store, was charged with healthcare and wire fraud and indicted by a grand jury. The Indictment accused Fakih of wrongfully taking millions of United States dollars from Medicare, Medicaid and Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS),...
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New Study Finds That Chemicals from Sunscreen Enter The Bloodstream After One Day of Use
According to a new study published by the JAMA Network, many of the chemicals found in sunscreen are absorbed into the bloodstream after just one day of use. The study also found that the concentration of these chemicals in the bloodstream continued to rise with each day of use. The bloodstream was found...
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