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Biogen’s $900 million settlement signals scrutiny on speaker fees

Pharmaceutical Technology

In 2009, former Biogen employee Michael Bawduniak filed a lawsuit claiming that Biogen had violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute by providing millions of dollars to healthcare providers (HCPs) as an incentive to prescribe three of its multiple sclerosis (MS) drugs. Biogen’s activity in multiple sclerosis.

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Whistleblower gets $250m as Biogen settles US kickbacks case

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Biogen has finalised a $900 million payment to settle a whistleblower lawsuit claiming that it paid kickbacks to US doctors to prescribe its multiple sclerosis drugs. That resulted in false claims for payment being submitted to the government healthcare programs Medicare and Medicaid, it alleged.

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Direct to Patient Healthcare

Healthcare Success

Lee Aase: But we came up with a strategy, and then we just sort of nudged our way into things over time and then around 2009, just based on some of the success we'd seen with some of the YouTube videos we'd done and some of those other projects. And hospitals notoriously conservative and doctors far more so. And how cool is that?

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The Malaysia Institute Of Technology

Contrarian Sales Techniques

In 2009, Edexcel Higher Education Diploma was the first college in Malaysia to introduce the new technology to the Malaysian higher education sector, and it has since become the world's leading training and research location. Since its foundation, the ITCP has excelled in four important areas.

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Cardiovascular Electrophysiology Sales With Alexander Frekey

Evolve Your Success

It finds that to start a diagnosis for a cardiologist or electrophysiologist, doctors who are in sync with the electrical signals of the heart. For everyone out there, heart doctors, plain and simple. That doctor has a lead MA who is not going to budge so it’s not the doctor. It’s different. That’s 100%.

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Addressing Mental Health And Drug Addiction With Zack Cooper

Evolve Your Success

We try to model our clinics like a regular doctor’s office. We modeled our practice like a regular doctor’s office. By running it as a normal doctor’s office and making the visits easy to attend, not starting at 5:00 AM and closing at noon, we accept all insurances that will get credentialed with us, even Medicaid.

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Cardiovascular Medical Device Sales With Marc Toth

Evolve Your Success

Others like myself, I got to the point where I was like, “I don’t want to chase doctors around it. Some people in medicine get to the point where they don’t want to chase doctors around anymore. I went in with a training class of fifteen other new reps. Being a doctor may not be the end of your destination.

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