French Medical Device Manufacturer to Pay $2 Million to Resolve Alleged Kickbacks to Physicians and Related Medicare Open Payments Program Violations

PHILADELPHIA – Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced today that Medicrea International, a French medical device manufacturer, and its American affiliate Medicrea USA Inc., have agreed to pay: $1 Million to the United States and participating states to resolve civil whistleblower allegations that the companies, by entertaining U.S.-based physicians during a 2013 conference in France, violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and, through resulting claims to federal healthcare programs, the False Claims Act and similar state statutes; and an additional $1 Million to the United States to resolve related allegations that the companies violated the physician Open Payments Program (formerly known as the “Sunshine Act”) by failing to fully report those physician-entertainment expenses to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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