Posted February 14, 2020
Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based developer of IT products for the healthcare industry, agreed to pay $145-million to avoid criminal and civil prosecution over accusations that it solicited a $1-million kick-back from an unidentified “major opioid manufacturer” in exchange for using its technology to push doctors toward prescribing more unnecessary opioids. The software company claimed to provide unbiased medical information, but it allowed input from the drug manufacturer that influenced doctors to over-prescribe opioids medication. $26-million will go toward criminal fines, and $119 million will go to the federal government and the states. As usual, none of the settlement will go to victims. Read more.