US high court seeks government views on J&J's appeal in Procrit kickback case
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The US Supreme Court has asked for the Department of Justice's solicitor general to weigh in on questions raised in Ortho Biotech's (Johnson & Johnson's) challenge to a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that it defrauded Medicare by offering kickbacks to healthcare providers for prescribing Procrit (epoetin alfa).