{"id":42359,"date":"2026-03-31T15:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/42359\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:13:10","slug":"novartis-whistleblower-advances-kickback-lawsuit-toward-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/42359\/","title":{"rendered":"Novartis Whistleblower Advances Kickback Lawsuit Toward Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A whistleblower can move forward with a False Claims Act suit alleging that Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. paid kickbacks to physicians to increase prescriptions of Gilenya, a drug used to treat multiple sclerosis, a New York federal district court said.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Camburn adequately alleged Novartis knowingly submitted kickback-tainted claims to Medicare, including claims alleging Novartis paid physicians for speaking at events with no legitimate attendees, Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/wood-kimba-maureen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kimba M. Wood<\/a> of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said in a Monday order.<\/p>\n<p>The parties must now work on a proposed schedule for discovery, pretrial motions, and trial, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A whistleblower can move forward with a False Claims Act suit alleging that Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. paid kickbacks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[11088,24533,24531,24534,24535,24532,206,24536],"class_list":{"0":"post-42359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-novartis","8":"tag-discovery","9":"tag-false-claims-litigation","10":"tag-health-care-kickbacks","11":"tag-medicare-drug-payments","12":"tag-medicare-fraud","13":"tag-medicare-physician-payments","14":"tag-novartis","15":"tag-physicians"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116324440732888124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}