$1,000 a Pop: How Forest Labs Bribed Doctors to Prescribe Antidepressants to Kids

$1,000 a Pop: How Forest Labs Bribed Doctors to Prescribe Antidepressants to Kids

Forest Labs (FRX) appears to have initially underestimated how much it needed to pay the feds to go away: In 2009, the company said it had set aside $170 million in case it needed to settle a Department of Justice investigation of the kickbacks it paid in its marketing of Celexa and Lexapro, two antidepressants. Today, the company paid $313 million to wrap up the probes.

Corporate Integrity Agreement Between OIG HHS and Forest Laboratories Inc