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Company: Practice Fusion Inc.
Current Parent Company: Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
Penalty: $145,000,000
Year: 2020
Date: January 27, 2020
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: kickbacks and bribery
Secondary Offense: opioid crisis litigation
Mega-Scandal: Opioid Crisis
Violation Description: Practice Fusion Inc., a San Francisco-based health information technology developer, entered into a deferred prosecution agreement and agreed to pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil investigations relating to its electronic health records software. As part of the criminal resolution, Practice Fusion admitted that it solicited and received kickbacks from a major opioid company in exchange for utilizing its software to influence physician prescribing of opioid pain medications.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Civil Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil and criminal
Prosecution Agreement: deferred prosecution agreement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Illinois
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: information technology
Specific Industry of Current Parent: healthcare information technology
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