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State Settles Largest-Ever Medicaid Fraud Suit

(Gerald Rich/Texas Tribune) In the state’s largest-ever Medicaid fraud recovery, Johnson & Johnson agreed Thursday to pay Texas $158 million to settle a lawsuit over its efforts to get the schizophrenia drug Risperdal on an approved list for the state’s poorest patients. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and a Pennsylvania whistleblower sued Janssen, a subsidiary …

State Settles Largest-Ever Medicaid Fraud Suit”