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Company: Medicrea International
Penalty: $2,000,000
Year: 2021
Date: May 19, 2021
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Secondary Offense: kickbacks and bribery
Violation Description: Medicrea International, a French medical device manufacturer, and its American affiliate Medicrea USA Inc., agreed to pay: $1 million to the United States and participating states to resolve civil whistleblower allegations that the companies, by entertaining U.S.-based physicians during a 2013 conference in France, violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and, through resulting claims to federal healthcare programs, the False Claims Act and similar state statutes; and an additional $1 Million to the United States to resolve related allegations that the companies violated the physician Open Payments Program by failing to fully report those physician-entertainment expenses to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: U.S. Attorney-Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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