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A major hospital chain in the U.S., Tenet Healthcare Corporation, along with two of its Atlanta-area subsidiaries, will pay more than $513 million in an attempt to resolve criminal charges and civil claims of a scheme aimed at defrauding the United States and to pay kickbacks for the acquisition of patient referrals. Apart from that, […]
The Seventeenth Annual Pharma and Medical Device Compliance Congress is being held from the 19th to the 21st of October, 2016, at the Mandarin Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference aims to bring together senior representatives from the compliance and legal industries to discuss best practices for compliance and will feature an impressive list of […]
Three years after the initiation of the EFPIA code, member companies published their transfers of value for the first time in 2016 in order to disclose their transactions with HCPs and HCOs for 2015. Whilst transparency initiatives in themselves aren’t new (countries like the USA, Netherlands, Portugal, UK and France already had them in place), […]
The EFPIA Transparency Directive deems it necessary for all member associations within the EU to publish spend data by Pharma manufacturers on HCP/HCO. For this purpose, under the data privacy laws of the EU, it is necessary for pharmaceutical manufacturers to receive consent from HCPs prior to reporting any transfer of value details in the […]
The 4th Annual Pharma Compliance Europe Congress is being held at the Royal Garden Hotel, London, UK, on October 5th & 6th, 2016. The conference aims to bring together senior representatives from the legal, compliance, and transparency industries to discuss operational best practices and will feature an impressive list of speakers and attendees from Pfizer, […]
In the past couple of years, law enforcement agencies have recovered billions of dollars through judgments and settlements related to healthcare fraud investigations. In the fiscal year 2015, the DoJ recovered more than $3.5 billion in judgments and settlements from cases that involved fraud and false claims against the government. As time goes by, government […]