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Company: AstraZeneca LP
Current Parent Company: AstraZeneca
Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement:  subscribe to see this data field
Penalty: $46,500,000
Year: 2015
Date: November 4, 2015
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Mega-Scandal: Drug Pricing Abuses
Violation Description: AstraZeneca argeed to pay $46.5 million to settle multistate allegations that it overcharged state Medicaid programs for pharmaceutical products by underpaying drug rebates owed to the states. Also involved in the settlement was the federal government, which issued its own announcement; 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: United Kingdom
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.