(October 29, 2019, 12:30 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — Two patient charities have agreed to pay a total of $6 million to settle federal allegations that they violated the False Claims Act, 31 U.S. Code § 3729, by enabling drug companies to pay kickbacks in the form of drug co-pays to Medicare patients who took the companies’ drugs, the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts announced in an Oct. 25 news release....