The Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has settled out of court in a bribery case in the United States. The company pays $ 678 millionas the US Department of Justice announced. Novartis has been accused of organizing tens of thousands of informal meetings with doctors about expensive food and high speakers' fees.
In return, the doctors are supposed to increasingly use Novartis medicines against High blood pressure and diabetes prescribed, the cost of which would then have borne state health insurance. Novartis took responsibility for numerous allegations and committed to reducing its events.
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