FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                         CIV
FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1995                              (202) 514-2008
                                               TDD (202) 514-1888

                                 
                  JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ATTORNEYS 
              TO BRIEF MEDIA ON CAREMARK SETTLEMENT

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Justice Department attorneys will provide
a briefing on the $161 million health care fraud settlement with
Caremark International at 1:00 today in Conference Room B of the
Main Justice Department Building. 

     Gerald Stern, named by Attorney General Reno as the
Department's Special Counsel for Health Care Fraud, and attorneys
from the Civil Division and Criminal Division who worked on the
settlement will be present.

     After an extensive multi-agency investigation of health care
fraud, Caremark has pled guilty and agreed to pay approximately
$161 million in criminal fines, civil restitution and damages for
kickbacks and fraud in its home infusion, oncology, hemophilia and
human growth hormone businesses.  The amount is one of the largest
ever obtained in a health care fraud case.

     The Caremark case has utilized the resources of more than ten
federal agencies working cooperatively, along with state law
enforcement officials and U.S. Attorneys in a dozen cities around
the country:  Minneapolis, Minnesota; Columbus, Ohio; Hartford,
Connecticut; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit,
Michigan; Denver, Colorado; Washington,D.C.; Atlanta, Georgia;
Buffalo, New York; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Houston, Texas.  

     Media are invited to attend.  For more information, call
Gregory King in the Office of Public Affairs (202) 514-2008.

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