New Zealand Fishing Company Indicted for Enviromental Crimes and Obstruction of Justice
Received Reimbursement for Unapproved Drugs
WASHINGTON - KV Pharmaceutical Company, which was the St. Louis-based
parent company of now-defunct Ethex Corporation, will pay $17 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that Ethex failed to
advise the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that two unapproved products did not
qualify for
coverage under
federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced today. Ethex is alleged to have submitted false quarterly
reports ....
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