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Company: Schering-Plough Corp.
Current Parent Company: Merck
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Penalty: $27,000,000
Year: 2004
Date: May 3, 2004
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Mega-Scandal: Drug Pricing Abuses
Violation Description: Schering-Plough agreed to pay $27 million to Texas and the federal government to settle allegations that it engaged in falsification of wholesale drug price reporting. The settlement was also reported by the Justice Department; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Texas Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Texas
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: New Jersey
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Source of Data: Texas settles Medicaid fraud case for $27 million, Associated Press, May 3, 2004 (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.