CVS Omnicare Ordered to Pay $949 Million

A federal judge has ordered CVS Omnicare to pay $949 million. Allegations say that Omnicare dispensed drugs not supported by valid prescriptions to individuals in 3,000 long-term residential facilities and charged Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE for those drugs. Prescriptions were automatically assigned new prescription numbers, refills were automatically authorized, and prescriptions were periodically refilled in bulk without confirming that the prescriptions were still medically necessary or authorized by a physician. Read a story from RACmonitor.

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