ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL TONY WEST SPEAKS AT THE 12TH ANNUAL PHARMACEUTICAL ...
Washington, D.C. ~ Wednesday, November 2, 2011Thank you. Let me express my thanks to the Pharma Congress Co-Chairs, Gary DelVecchio, Margaret Feltz, Kelly Freeman, and Michael Shaw for inviting me to speak today. And thank you, Kelly, for that introduction.
I am pleased to be with you this afternoon at the twelfth annual gathering of this Pharma Congress. This is the third time Iâve had the privilege of addressing this group and itâs a pleasure to be here with my law enforcement partner, Mary Riordan, from the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, as well as several of my Civil Division colleagues, including Joyce Branda and Michael Blume, who will be on one of the panels later today.
But Iâm particularly pleased to be here with all of you: compliance officers, pharmaceutical and health care executives, physicians, nurses, legal counsel and other industry professionals â all of you play an integral role in ensuring that the medicines we rely on to ease pain, heal sickness and improve lives are the safest in the world.
You make good companies better by your advice and guidance; by your commitment to a level playing field that recognizes that fair competition and ethical compliance are the foundation of a vibrant, successful pharmaceutical industry.
You know itâs not enough to have a compliance program in name only, and you appreciate that the best compliance policies are wasted if a company lacks the corporate culture and the employee support system to encourage self-reporting and honest self-assessment.
And you know that in a country where nearly one in every ten health care dollars is spent on your products, reducing fraud is not only good for business, itâs essential to the sustainability of a sound, efficient health care system on which millions of Americans depend.
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ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL TONY WEST SPEAKS AT THE 12TH ANNUAL PHARMACEUTICAL ...
You know it's not enough to have a compliance program in name only, and you appreciate that the best compliance policies are wasted if a company lacks the corporate culture and the employee support system to encourage self-reporting and honest
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