List: Thanks to Quackwatch, I found the following article. To read the whole incredible story go to: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7317/828/a
Drug companies defrauded Medicare of millions Fred Charatan, Florida A joint venture of Takeda Chemical Industries and Abbott Laboratories>TAP Pharmaceutical Products>has agreed to pay $875m (£583) to settle criminal and civil charges that it had illegally manipulated the Medicare and Medicaid programmes. The settlement tops the $840m paid by the healthcare company HCA for fraud (BMJ 2001;322:10). Federal prosecutors said that sales representatives from TAP gave doctors free samples of leuprorelin acetate (marketed as Lupron in the United States and Prostap in the United Kingdom), which is used to treat prostate cancer and infertility. The representatives then helped them to get government reimbursements at hundreds of dollars for each dose injected. Employees of TAP were charged with giving kickbacks>trips to resorts, medical equipment, and "educational grant" payments to doctors if they prescribed leuprorelin.
