tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 45

Enforcement Watch: Urologist Slammed For Heeding Drugmaker's Advice

You may not be immune from TAP marketing fallout.If you received free samples of Lupron prior to the recent Department of Justice settlement with TAP Pharmaceuticals, your billing practices may still end up under the microscope.      Dr. G. Craig Kiser, an Oregon urologist, will pay the government more than $200,000 in restitution to settle allegations that he improperly billed Medicare and Medicaid for 23 free samples of the prostate cancer drug he received from the manufacturer. Although Kiser received only $10,000 from federal payers, he is liable for triple damages and...

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