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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: KV Pharmaceutical Company
Penalty: $17,000,000
Year: 2012
Date: March 1, 2012
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: KV Pharmaceutical agreed to pay $17 million to settle multistate litigation alleging that it failed to advise the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that two unapproved products did not qualify for coverage under federal and state health care programs. The settlement also involved 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
Source of Data: (click here)
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