{"id":12384,"date":"2011-10-06T09:38:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T13:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=12384"},"modified":"2011-10-06T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T13:41:17","slug":"jj-pleads-guilty-pays-85-million-to-settle-natrecor-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/10\/06\/jj-pleads-guilty-pays-85-million-to-settle-natrecor-case\/","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;J Pleads Guilty, Pays $85 Million to Settle Natrecor Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/2011\/October\/11-civ-1323.html\">The U.S. Department of Justice announced<\/a>\u00a0that Johnson &amp; Johnson has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and has agreed to pay an $85 million criminal fine to settle charges about the company&#8217;s marketing of Natrecor (nesiritide) for off-label use.<\/p>\n<p>The government said that Scios, the J&amp;J subsidiary that marketed the drug, &#8220;admitted that it intended Natrecor to be used off-label for infusing chronic (non-acute) CHF patients on a scheduled, serial basis and that it understood that this was not an approved use of the drug.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice announced\u00a0that Johnson &amp; Johnson has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and has agreed to pay an $85 million criminal fine to settle charges about the company&#8217;s marketing of Natrecor (nesiritide) for off-label use. The government said that Scios, the J&amp;J subsidiary that marketed the drug, &#8220;admitted that it intended Natrecor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1010,548],"class_list":["post-12384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heart-failure","tag-natrecor","tag-nesiritide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}