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Company: Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation
Current Parent Company: Bausch Health
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Penalty: $4,000,000
Year: 2007
Date: December 12, 2007
Offense Group: healthcare-related offenses
Primary Offense: off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products
Secondary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: Medicis agreed to pay $4 million to settle multistate allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act with respect to claims submitted to Medicaid by promoting the use of a topical skin preparation, Loprox, for use on children under the age of 10, without approval by the Food & Drug Administration. This was part of a larger $9.8 million 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: Canada
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Source of Data: Idaho Recovers $13,000 for Improper Prescriptions for Medicaid Patients, States News Service, December 12, 2007 (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.