{"id":28478,"date":"2020-07-04T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28478"},"modified":"2020-07-04T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T11:55:10","slug":"novartis-agrees-to-642mn-us-settlement-over-kickbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28478","title":{"rendered":"Novartis agrees to $642mn US settlement over kickbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Novartis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Novartis.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Novartis-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For more than a decade, Novartis spent hundreds of millions of dollars on so-called speaker programs, including speaking fees, exorbitant meals and top-shelf alcohol that were nothing more than bribes to get doctors across the country to prescribe Novartis&#8217; drugs,\u201d said acting US Attorney Audrey Strauss for the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-au\/money\/companies\/novartis-agrees-to-642mn-us-settlement-over-kickbacks\/ar-BB16eBbJ\">https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-au\/money\/companies\/novartis-agrees-to-642mn-us-settlement-over-kickbacks\/ar-BB16eBbJ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For more than a decade, Novartis spent hundreds of millions of dollars on so-called speaker programs, including speaking fees, exorbitant meals and top-shelf alcohol that were nothing more than bribes to get doctors across the country to prescribe Novartis&#8217; drugs,\u201d said acting US Attorney Audrey Strauss for the Southern District of New York. https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-au\/money\/companies\/novartis-agrees-to-642mn-us-settlement-over-kickbacks\/ar-BB16eBbJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28480,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28478\/revisions\/28480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}