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Company: QOL Medical LLC
Penalty: $47,000,000
Year: 2024
Date: November 15, 2024
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Secondary Offense: kickbacks and bribery
Mega-Scandal: Federal Contractor Abuses
Violation Description: Pharmaceutical company QOL Medical LLC and its co-owner and CEO agreed to pay $47 million to resolve allegations that they caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs, in violation of the False Claims Act and similar state statutes, by offering kickbacks in the form of free Carbon-13 breath testing services to induce claims for QOL's drug Sucraid.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Civil Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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