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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Alere Inc.
Current Parent Company: Abbott Laboratories
Penalty: $4,860,779
Year: 2018
Date: March 23, 2018
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Secondary Offense: drug or medical equipment safety violation
Mega-Scandal: Healthcare Billing Abuses
Violation Description: Alere agreed to pay $4.9 million to settle multistate litigation alleging that it caused hospitals to submit false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal healthcare programs by knowingly selling materially unreliable point-of-care diagnostic testing devices. This was part of a larger $33.2 million settlement also involving the federal government; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Illinois
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Source of Data: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.