Office of the Attorney General's Civil Medicaid Fraud Division Recovers $42.7 Million in Taxpayer Funds

Texas Attorney General press release of 8 Aug 2023: the Civil Medicaid Fraud Division settled a TMFPA action, first brought by a whistleblower under the qui tam provisions, against Shire, Baxter, Baxalta, Viropharma and Takeda entities ($42.7 million in the headline, 'more than $42 million' in the text); cumulative recoveries of about $2.5 billion since 2000 (already recorded). The rest of the page is site navigation and links to unrelated criminal Medicaid fraud releases (out of scope). Added the settlement as a case.