Ex-Big Pharma CEO Pleads Guilty to Paying Doctors to Prescribe Opioids
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A former pharmaceutical chief executive has pleaded guilty to facilitating a complex scheme that awarded 'kickbacks' to a doctor who prescribed his company’s fentanyl-based opioid drugs, reports say.According to the lawyer and prosecution, it is a move towards removing corrupt greed that’s “alive and well in the pharma business.”Michael Babich, the former CEO at Insys Therapeutics pleaded guilty for his role in the nationwide scam to entice physicians to prescribe the company’s oral-spray painkillers, according to the hearing at the federal court in Boston on Wednesday.