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QOL Medical and CEO fined $47m for kickback scheme

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Alexander Barzacanos

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The company overstated diagnostic claims to boost sales of its flagship product Sucraid.

Pharmaceutical company QOL Medical, and its CEO Frederik E Cooper, have agreed to pay $47m to the Department of Justice over charges that they paid illegal remuneration and therefore submitted false claims to Medicare, TRICARE, VA, and Medicaid, in violation of the False Claims Act (FCA) and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS).

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