$97M Settlement Between Gilead and DOJ Over Kickbacks Posted on September 25, 2020 by The National Trial Lawyers Amid an industrywide kickbacks investigation into pharma’s charity contributions, Gilead Sciences has become the latest drugmaker to strike a deal. Though the company says it doesn’t believe it violated any laws, it agreed to pay $97 million to resolve kickbacks allegations. Gilead inked the settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve claims it used a patient foundation as a “conduit” to cover Medicare patients’ copays for Letairis, a pulmonary arterial hypertension drug that’s now off patent. Gilead is the latest drugmaker to strike a deal in the yearslong probe, following settlements of various sizes for Sanofi, Pfizer, Astellas, Amgen, Alexion and United Therapeutics, among others. Read the source article at Pharma News