Pharmaceutical giant Gilead claims to have been the victim of a massive healthcare scam in the state of Florida.
The Bay Area-based company says sunlight-state clinics and pharmacies are taking advantage of the free distribution of HIV prevention drug Truvada, a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), to illegally obtain and market the drug for free. black market to sell. market.
The company accuses companies of recruiting uninsured people and even homeless people into the drug program.
The drugs were then distributed illegally, sometimes on the black market, costing the drug giant millions. On Wednesday, he won a court order that could order him to repay millions of dollars.
Gilead, the giant pharmaceutical company, alleges that Truvada was misused as part of a large-scale fraud scheme in Florida that allows the uninsured to access HIV medicine (archive photo)
The company alleges that the Advanced Access Drug Assistance Program was misused as part of the program.
Gilead distributed Truvada free of charge to people who are uninsured and at risk of contracting HIV.
The drug works by preventing the HIV virus from multiplying in the body, killing infected cells and stopping the development of AIDS.
It is often used by gay and bisexual men and others with a partner at risk of infection.
Those who qualify will receive the drug for free as part of a larger institutional effort to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.
In 2019, the company began noticing inconsistencies in the amount of medication dispensed in the state, and the former company said something was wrong.
After the investigations and reports of the informants, the company was informed about the regime.
Employees of pharmacies, medical labs, and clinics across the state have recruited the homeless and others in need of cash to perform a drug-eligible checkup.
Gilead then sends the drugs to the pharmacy for the recruit to use.
Instead, the company would repackage and distribute the drugs. They sell it either through pharmacies or illegally on the black market, the company says.
The company claims that pharmacies, health clinics, and others recruit people to participate in fraudulent screening to obtain drugs. Then scammers sometimes repackaged and sold the drug on the black market (archive photo)
Gilead is seeking tens of millions of compensation from 58 defendants named in a lawsuit filed in November 2020.
It also specifically blames some of the “Kingpins” who are believed to be the main perpetrators of the scheme and benefit most from it.
The company claims that these people bought luxury items such as cars, real estate and private jets with the defrauded money.
A motion was passed this month to freeze all of the Kingpins’ assets, and a Miami court has now requested a complete listing of all of their assets.
This is Gilead’s second major HIV drug fraud case in recent years.
In 2020, the company discovered that more than 80,000 bottles of one of its HIV drugs had been counterfeited and sold to pharmacies across the country.
The revelation sparked a federal investigation in which law enforcement cracked down on counterfeiters and confiscated thousands of pill bottles.
Source: Daily Mail
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