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History Repeats, and Repeats: McKesson Settles

Health Care Renewal  Thu, 10/21/2010 - 15:27

Here a settlement, there a settlement, everywhere a settlement....  And the march continues, as reported by the New London (CT) Day,

Pharmaceutical distributor McKesson Corp. will pay Connecticut $15 million for 'illegal and deceptive practices' that inflated drug costs for both individual consumers and state-funded programs, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced Tuesday.


 

Sacks Medical, KV Pharmaceutical Plead Guilty, Mariner Health Ca...

Health Care Renewal  Mon, 03/01/2010 - 16:22

The march of legal settlements and guilty pleas by health care organizations just keeps going.  The most recent participants were:

Sacks Medical Corp

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported:

A Butler County drug company pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh to international money laundering and violating federal drug laws in an investigation that involved the now-defunct Monsour Medical Center Research Institute.


 

Former McKesson CEO and Board Chairman Convicted of Fraud

Health Care Renewal  Mon, 11/23/2009 - 16:26

Continuing with our annals of health care crime, Bloomberg.com reported a new verdict on a very old case:

Former McKesson Corp.

Chairman Charles McCall was convicted in a second trial of participating in a fraud 10 years ago that cost investors $8.6 billion, one of the largest white-collar crimes at the time.