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American multi-national drug company, Amgen, the world\u2019s largest biotechnology firm, agrees to pay $762 million to settle whistleblower case.<\/p>\n

This is a wide ranging story that includes at least ten whistleblower lawsuits filed in numerous states. The qui tam suits suggest Amgen defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and other government health care programs, by promoting off label uses for Aranesp or darbepoetin alfa, which is used to treat anemia as a result of chronic renal failure. Aranesp is apparently not the only drug the company was suggesting that doctors use off label either. Their campaign was to encourage physicians and other health care professionals, to prescribe Aranesp and Sensipar, among other drugs, and pay kickbacks to them.<\/p>\n

The whistleblower in this case, United States ex rel. Cantor v. Amgen, Inc., <\/em>Civil Action No. CV-04-2511 (E.D.N.Y.), is Tom Cantor. His suit alleges Amgen, in essence, bribed doctors to boost the sales of six of their drugs, (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American multi-national drug company, Amgen, the world\u2019s largest biotechnology firm, agrees to pay $762 million to settle whistleblower case. This is a wide ranging story that includes at least ten whistleblower lawsuits filed in numerous states. The qui tam suits…<\/span><\/p>\n

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