A whistleblower accused Medicrea of violating the anti-kickback statute by entertaining physicians during the 2013 Scoliosis Research Society Congress in Lyon, France. The company paid $1 million to resolve the allegations.
Medicrea paid another $1 million to settle allegations it failed to report expenses spent on entertaining physicians at that event to the CMS Open Payments Program, as required by law.
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