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Violation Tracker Summary for Mega-Scandal

Mega-Scandal: Healthcare Kickbacks
Description: This list shows cases in which healthcare companies paid penalties of $25 million or more in cases related to the payment of illegal kickbacks to healthcare providers.
Penalty Total since 2000$12,732,719,371
Number of Penalty Records: 101
Note: The totals here are adjusted to account for the fact that each current parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.
Top 10 Current Parent CompaniesTotal Penalty $Number of Records
Tenet Healthcare$1,472,744,0655
Novartis$1,265,000,0005
Biogen$900,000,0001
HCA Healthcare$631,000,0001
Abbott Laboratories$625,000,0003
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries$531,600,0003
Fresenius Medical Care$486,000,0001
Johnson & Johnson$444,700,0002
BAE Systems$400,000,0001
CVS Health$364,625,0007

Individual Penalty Records:

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CompanyCurrent ParentCurrent Parent IndustryPrimary Offense TypeYearAgencyPenalty Amount sort icon
Abbott LaboratoriesAbbott Laboratoriespharmaceuticalsoff-label or unapproved promotion of medical products2018USAO$25,000,000
(*): Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting.