tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 23

Pharmaceuticals: PHARMA ENFORCEMENT REACHES A BOIL

Drug Giant Targeted In Criminal Probe The aggressive health care fraud enforcement team at the U.S. attorney's office in Boston has chosen its next target. U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan's office on May 29 alerted Kenilworth, NJ-based Schering-Plough Corp. that it is the target of a criminal investigation focusing on some of the most high-profile pharmaceutical compliance hot buttons around. According to Schering-Plough, the target letter - a document that typically means the Department of Justice believes it has substantial evidence to support a criminal indictment - zeroes in on four key areas: paying kickbacks, in the form...

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