- cafead Sep 17, 2024 at 10:12: AM
via Walgreens has agreed to a $106.8 million settlement over drug prescriptions that were billed to government programs but never dispensed, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday.
The alleged false claims for payment were submitted between 2009 and 2020 and brought “tens of millions of dollars” to the large drug chain, the government alleges. Prescriptions that weren’t picked up by beneficiaries were still processed by Walgreens, which the company said in a statement to press was the result of a software error.
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The alleged false claims for payment were submitted between 2009 and 2020 and brought “tens of millions of dollars” to the large drug chain, the government alleges. Prescriptions that weren’t picked up by beneficiaries were still processed by Walgreens, which the company said in a statement to press was the result of a software error.
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