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Hidden schemes to defraud Medicare and state Medicaid programs <\/a>of scarce taxpayer dollars are at the heart of many whistleblower cases under the federal and state False Claims Acts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This morning, Wisconsin Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen announced that a Dane County, Wisconsin jury has just declared that a pharmaceutical manufacturer defrauded the Wisconsin Medicaid program by reporting grossly inflated and fraudulent prices.<\/p>\n

Pfizer was on the receiving end of the health care fraud verdict, which may result in more than $153 million in damages based on alleged practices by Pharmacia (which Pfizer had acquired). The AG reportedly cited a 1993 internal memo in which a pharma employee wrote that “three decades of gaming the present reimbursement scheme has provided a lucrative avenue of profit<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hidden schemes to defraud Medicare and state Medicaid programs of scarce taxpayer dollars are at the heart of many whistleblower cases under the federal and state False Claims Acts. This morning, Wisconsin Attorney General J. B. 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