Spanish Drug Company Pays $7.51M To Resolve Federal, California Kickback Claims

Mealey's (June 5, 2019, 11:59 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — Spanish pharmaceutical company Almirall LLC has agreed to pay a combined $7.51 million to the United States and California to settle allegations that one of its acquisitions, Aqua Pharmaceuticals LLC of Pennsylvania, paid kickbacks to physicians to prescribe the companies’ dermatology drugs, a U.S. attorney’s office announced May 29 (United States, ex rel. John Doe v. Aqua Pharmaceuticals LLC, et al., No. 15-5086, E.D. Pa.)....