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Whistleblower gets $250m as Biogen settles US kickbacks case

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Biogen has finalised a $900 million payment to settle a whistleblower lawsuit claiming that it paid kickbacks to US doctors to prescribe its multiple sclerosis drugs. That resulted in false claims for payment being submitted to the government healthcare programs Medicare and Medicaid, it alleged.

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Biogen’s $900 million settlement signals scrutiny on speaker fees

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In 2009, former Biogen employee Michael Bawduniak filed a lawsuit claiming that Biogen had violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute by providing millions of dollars to healthcare providers (HCPs) as an incentive to prescribe three of its multiple sclerosis (MS) drugs. Biogen’s activity in multiple sclerosis.

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A Leader’s Journey From Surgical Tech Sales To Startup Global Director With Jennifer McLaughlin

Evolve Your Success

She sits down with Samuel Adeyinka to discuss how this particular healthcare innovation does its wonders, especially for those dealing with chronic pain. She moved from the clinical side to the sales side of the operating room back in 2014 and joined a major device company. Her story is something that you want to tune in to.

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Medical Sales In Sterile Processing And Infection Prevention With Mark Copeland

Evolve Your Success

Mark Copeland has an experience in medical device sales with 18 years in the game and 27 in healthcare. He brings new products that solve healthcare problems. I find reps, doctors, and directors. They train you like crazy. It’s the best training. You should meet with them.” What are you looking for?”

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Private Patient Advocacy: Educating Patients To Be Their Own Advocates With Antra Boyd And Karen DiMarco

Evolve Your Success

We saw poor outcomes and couldn’t figure out how to change it from within so we thought, “If we can walk alongside a patient and help them navigate the healthcare system, maybe they would have better outcomes.” I was done clinical nursing in 2014. You are training the patients to be better voices for themselves.

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Will A.I. Replace the Medical Sales Workforce and Surgeons? With Edouard Saget

Evolve Your Success

The difference is that our algorithm was trained to do all the human was doing. The reality is you train your AI. You have to train it. You can’t just train on good and good only. A margin of error exists. Now we do differently. The image is still produced by an X-ray machine. A system needs to be able to see both.

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Driving Provider Engagement in Value-Based Care

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And frankly, if you’re paying a provider 57% of the 2014 CMS schedule, they’re not going to be terribly excited about you putting this bonus program in front of them when they’re concentrating on that. We all have to figure out the best way to move forward to keep healthcare costs under control. So we assign them.