Nursing home pharmacy Omnicare Inc. and drug manufacturer IVAX Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay a total of 43.5 million to settle multistate litigation alleging that Omnicare engaged in kickback schemes with several parties, including IVAX, and thus caused false claims to be submitted to state Medicaid programs. This was part of a larger 112 million settlement (98 million from Omnicare and 14 million from IVAX) involving the federal government; ###-ivax-pharmaceuticals