AbbVie Deployed Nurses As 'Runners And Cappers' In Humira Kickback Scheme, Suit Alleges

California Insurance Commissioner claims AbbVie gave kickbacks for healthcare providers to prescribe Humira and had nurse 'ambassadors' insert themselves between patients and physicians.

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Drug makers have faced numerous suits over the years alleging they paid kickbacks to induce physicians to prescribe their drugs. But California's complaint against AbbVie Inc. takes a different approach, focusing on registered nurses that were hired as a go-between for doctors and their Humira (adalimumab) patients.

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones filed the suit on Sept. 18 in Alameda County Superior Court on behalf of the state of California

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