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Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Thu, 09/03/2009 - 12:36

In today's Philadelphia Inquirer in a story entitled "FDA: Pfizer ignored warnings, gets record fine " we learn that:

The [$2.3 billion] fine, which had been expected, was the largest ever paid by a drug company for defrauding the government's Medicare and Medicaid programs.

The U.S. Justice Department said that it included the largest criminal fine in U.S. history - $1.2 billion.

Authorities called Pfizer a repeat offender, noting this is the fourth such settlement...


 

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