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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: B. Braun Medical Inc.
Current Parent Company: B. Braun Melsungen
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Penalty: $14,744,000
Year: 2010
Date: December 7, 2010
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: Abbott Laboratories Inc., B. Braun Medical Inc. and Roxane Laboratories Inc. n/k/a Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane Inc. and affiliated entities agreed to pay $421 million to settle False Claims Act allegations, that they engaged in a scheme to report false and inflated prices for numerous pharmaceutical products knowing that federal healthcare programs relied on those reported prices to set payment rates.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Civil Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: Germany
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: privately held
Major Industry of Current Parent: medical equipment and supplies
Specific Industry of Current Parent: medical supplies
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