Te­va tri­al over al­leged Medicare kick­backs stopped while pend­ing ap­peal of po­ten­tial $10B judg­ment

The US gov­ern­ment’s law­suit against Te­va Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals al­leg­ing Medicare fraud has been tem­porar­i­ly stopped in Mass­a­chu­setts Dis­trict Court while Te­va ap­peals a court or­der that al­lowed the case to move for­ward. If Te­va los­es, it could mean the com­pa­ny faces a judg­ment that could ex­ceed $10 bil­lion.

Te­va sought sum­ma­ry judg­ment in Ju­ly, but the court de­nied the re­quest and al­so ruled lawyers for the gov­ern­ment did not have to prove that any par­tic­u­lar Medicare pay­ments would not have been made but for the il­le­gal kick­backs.

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