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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics Inc. and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Current Parent Company: Novartis
Penalty: $29,000,000
Year: 2010
Date: May 4, 2010
Offense Group: healthcare-related offenses
Primary Offense: off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products
Secondary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Mega-Scandal: Healthcare Billing Abuses
Violation Description: Novartis agreed to pay $29 million to settle multistate litigation alleging that it caused false claims to be submitted to state Medicaid programs by promoting the drug TOBI for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This was part of a larger $72.5 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: Switzerland
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Source of Data: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.