PHILADELPHIA, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kang Haggerty LLC announced today that they obtained a $9 Million settlement in a non-intervened fentanyl false claims act qui tam case against private equity firm Belhealth Investment Partners, its principals, Harold Blue, Inder Tallur, and Dennis Drislane, and its pharmacy portfolio companies, Linden Care and Quick Care.
The parties have agreed to settle alleged violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) based on a complaint originally filed in 2016, asserting that the settling defendants violated the False Claims Act, §§ 3729-3722, and related laws, by conspiring to submit, submitting, and/or causing the submission of false claims for payment to the federal and state governments for prescriptions of Subsys, a potent, rapid-onset fentanyl sublingual spray.
The qui tam complaint alleged that between 2013 through at least 2016, mail-order specialty pharmacies Linden Care and Quick Care, under the control of and at the direction of Belhealth and its principals, dispensed and shipped thousands of prescriptions of Subsys nationwide to participants of Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE for widespread off-label, illegitimate, and non-medically accepted or necessary uses, despite the high potential for abuse of the drug, the FDA's narrow approval of the drug for use only in the management of "breakthrough cancer pain" in patients who are 18 years of age and older and are opioid tolerant, and the "corresponding responsibility" owed by Linden...
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