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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Fresenius Medical Care North America
Current Parent Company: Fresenius Medical Care
Penalty: $7,600,000
Year: 2000
Date: January 19, 2000
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Secondary Offense: kickbacks and bribery
Violation Description: Fresenius Medical Care agreed to pay $7.6 million to settle multistate litigation alleging that it paid illegal kickbacks to healthcare providers and thus caused false claims to be submitted to state Medicaid programs. This was part of a larger $486 million civil and criminal settlement 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: Germany
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: healthcare services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: dialysis services
Source of Data: Fresenius Medical Care North America Agrees to Pay $486 Million to Resolve Health Care Fraud Investigation, Reports U.S. Attorney, PR Newswire, January 19, 2000 (via Nexis).
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.