Whistleblower lawsuit shows the Dept. of Health and Human Services does not protect tax payer interest for Medicare/Medicaid.

This article form the LA Times illustrates the inherent problems of HHS not protecting tax payer interest and whistleblowers.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/19/business/la-fi-drug-kickbacks-20110319

A sealed or secret "corporate integrity" agreement between HHS and Bristol-Myers hides the violations of law and the truth from the American tax payer. A $515 million dollar settlement may very well show HHS took no real action. Meanwhile, the US tax payer is not protected.
"The California lawsuit was originally filed in March 2007 by Michael Wilson, a former Bristol-Myers employee. It was sealed until last week when a judge granted a request by the state Department of Insurance — which joined the suit — to make it public.
The case is the latest major legal action against Bristol-Myers over fraud accusations. In 2007, it paid $515 million to settle allegations by the federal government and other states that it used a kickback scheme to defraud the Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs.
As part of the settlement, Bristol-Myers entered into a "corporate integrity" agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that required it to report accurate sales and manufacturing prices for drugs covered by government insurance programs."