Attorney General Murrill secures over $200 million from Gilead Sciences for paying Illegal Kickbacks

Attorney General Murrill today joined coalition of 48 other attorneys general in securing $202 million from Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Gilead), for running an illegal kickback scheme to promote its HIV medications. Gilead violated federal law by illegally providing incentives – including awards, meals, and travel expenses – to health care providers to prescribe Gilead’s medications, resulting in millions of dollars of false claims submitted to government health care programs, including New York’s Medicaid program. The settlement in principle, reached in coordination with the U.S. Department of Justice and approved by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, provides $49 million for Medicaid programs nationwide, including the $1,143,135.00 to Louisiana, which includes the Federal portion, restitution, relator's share and additional damages. The remainder is going to Medicare, Tricare, and the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).

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