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Pharmas shelled out $2.2 billion in False Claims Act fines and settlements with the Justice Department this year as the feds' healthcare fraud haul hit an all-time high.

Forest Laboratories is the latest pharmaceutical company to settle unlawful marketing allegations with a multi-million dollar payout - over $313 million - to the Department of Justice (DOJ), just two weeks after Allergan agreed to pony up $600 million to settle illegal Botox marketing practices.

As part of an $81 million off-label settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ), Ortho-McNeil Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OMJPI) sales reps will be buddied up with internal compliance monitors tasked with observing and reporting the rep's behavior out in the field.

AstraZeneca agreed to pay $520 million and enter a five-year Corporate Integrity Agreement to settle a federal case against the company for off-label marketing of Seroquel, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services' Healthcare Enforcement Action Team announced.