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Business/Financial Desk | June 21, 2003, Saturday
AstraZeneca Pleads Guilty In Cancer Medicine Scheme

By MELODY PETERSEN (NYT) 1218 words
Late Edition - Final , Section C , Page 1 , Column 2

LEAD PARAGRAPH - AstraZeneca, the large pharmaceutical company, pleaded guilty today to a felony charge of health care fraud and agreed to pay $355 million to settle criminal and civil accusations that it engaged in a nationwide scheme to illegally market a prostate cancer drug.

The government said the company's employees had given illegal financial inducements to as many as 400 doctors across the country to persuade them to prescribe the drug, Zoladex. Those inducements included thousands of free samples of Zoladex, worth hundreds of dollars each, which the physicians then billed to Medicare and other federal health care programs, prosecutors said. The company also gave doctors financial grants, paid them as consultants and provided free travel and entertainment, the government said.



 

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