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Sen. Grassley asks pharma about whistleblower policies

WNN StaffbyWNN Staff
July 1, 2010
in Employment, News, Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowers
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Sen. Charles Grassley today released copies of his letters to 16 big pharmaceutical companies about their whistleblower policies. Bloomberg news service is also reporting on these inquiries. The letters review Sen. Charles Grassley on Senate floorSen. Grassley’s efforts to strengthen the False Claims Act (FCA), and ask what the companies are doing to inform employees about the FCA, and then to protect employees who come forward with information about frauds. Sen. Grassley notes that since the 1986 amendments, the government has recovered $22 billion that had been obtained by fraud. He notes that Section 6032 of the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) required contractors receiving over $5 million a year to issue written policies to employees about their rights under the FCA. The Bush administration then determined that this Section 6032 did not apply to pharmaceutical companies. Sen. Grassley disagrees, but still wants to know if the 16 biggest pharmaceutical companies nevertheless have the policies that would be required by Section 6032. Of the $22 billion recovered, Pfizer paid $2.3 billion in one settlement. Pfizer’s Chris Lodertold Bloomberg that it is responding to the letter and “shares the senator’s desire to detect and report any false claims that may lead to unnecessary costs to our health-care system.” Pfizer, he said, has invested “substantial resources” to “create a compliance program that consists of mandatory training for every one of our employees, proactive monitoring and surveillance, and strict enforcement of all federal and state health-care laws.” I wonder if Pfizer is more highly motivated since it paid that $2.3 billion. Sen. Grassley letters are available in the continuation of this blog entry

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