FILE PHOTO: The logo of Bayer AG is seen in a showroom of the German drugmaker where the annual results news conference takes place in Leverkusen, Germany February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File PhotoShare this contentMILAN: A Milan judge on Tuesday indicted the Italian units of Novartis and Bayer on charges of operating a scheme to cheat the regional public health service in Lombardy, legal and judicial sources said.
The hospitals, including the renowned San Raffaele Institute in Milan, were accused of claiming reimbursement for drugs obtained from Novartis and Bayer between 2013 and 2018 in a fraudulent way, prosecutors' documents showed.The prosecutors alleged that the hospitals charged the regional health service the full price for drugs which they had obtained at a lower price thanks to credit notes issued by the pharmaceutical companies, the documents said.