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Highlights of the 17th Annual Pharma and Medical Device Compliance Congress

The 17th Annual Pharma and Medical Device Compliance Congress was held at the Mandarin Hotel in Washington, D.C from the 19th to the 21st of October, 2016. The conference provided an excellent opportunity for senior representatives from the compliance, legal, transparency, legal affairs, commercial operations/marketing, and regulatory affairs industries to network and discuss operational best […]

Highlights of the 4th Annual Pharma Compliance Europe Congress

The 4th Annual Pharma Compliance Europe Congress was held at the Royal Garden Hotel, London, UK, on the 5th and 6th of October, 2016. The conference provided an excellent opportunity for senior representatives from the compliance, legal, transparency, legal affairs, commercial operations/marketing, and regulatory affairs industries to network and discuss operational best practices. Attendees of […]

This Company Paid $28.1 Million for Violating The Anti-kickback Statute and False Claims Act

The largest nursing home pharmacy in the United States of America, based on the number of beds served, Omnicare, has agreed to pay $28.1 million as a means of settling charges of violating the FCA and Anti-kickback statute alleged against it. It was alleged that Omnicare requested and accepted received kickbacks from Abbott Laboratories. In […]

$513 Million Penalty Imposed on a Hospital for Illegal Patient Referral Payments

A major hospital chain in the U.S., Tenet Healthcare Corporation, along with two of its Atlanta-area subsidiaries, will pay more than $513 million in an attempt to resolve criminal charges and civil claims of a scheme aimed at defrauding the United States and to pay kickbacks for the acquisition of patient referrals. Apart from that, […]

17th Annual Pharma and Medical Device Compliance Congress

The Seventeenth Annual Pharma and Medical Device Compliance Congress is being held from the 19th to the 21st of October, 2016, at the Mandarin Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference aims to bring together senior representatives from the compliance and legal industries to discuss best practices for compliance and will feature an impressive list of […]

EFPIA Transparency Directive: What to Expect in The Future?

Three years after the initiation of the EFPIA code, member companies published their transfers of value for the first time in 2016 in order to disclose their transactions with HCPs and HCOs for 2015. Whilst transparency initiatives in themselves aren’t new (countries like the USA, Netherlands, Portugal, UK and France already had them in place), […]