Baltimore-based Ameritox, a drug monitoring company, has been awarded nearly $14.8 million in a physician kickback case, according to a Triad Business Journal report.
On June 16, a Florida jury found San Diego-based Millennium Laboratories — one of Ameritox's competitors — was providing physicians with illegal kick-backs for referring Millennium business and using other tactics to steer business away from Ameritox.
The jury awarded Ameritox a total of $14.8 million, which included $12 million in punitive damages for Millennium's practices that were found to be in violation of the Stark Law, according to the report.
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