Ab­b­Vie set­tles in­sur­ance fraud suit, agrees to tweak nurse am­bas­sador pro­gram; CStone aims for NSCLC OK with pos­i­tive PhI­II da­ta

Ab­b­Vie has re­solved a Cal­i­for­nia law­suit al­leg­ing in­sur­ance fraud in the pro­mo­tion of its cash cow Hu­mi­ra, pay­ing $24 mil­lion to set­tle things with the state’s in­sur­ance reg­u­la­tor.

The set­tle­ment comes al­most four years af­ter a whistle­blow­er first re­port­ed Ab­b­Vie’s prac­tice of de­ploy­ing reg­is­tered nurs­es to vis­it pa­tients at home or call them by phone to en­sure that Hu­mi­ra pre­scrip­tions are filled. Ab­b­Vie was al­so charged with pro­vid­ing il­le­gal kick­backs to doc­tors in an at­tempt to en­cour­age them to pre­scribe Hu­mi­ra for a range of an­ti-in­flam­ma­to­ry dis­eases.

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