Friday, April 5, 2013

CVS to pay US $11 million in lawsuit settlement

KOCO Oklahoma City
A major pharmacy retailer has agreed to pay $11 million to the United States to settle civil penalty claims for record-keeping violations under the Controlled Substances Act and related regulations, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. The United States has alleged that from Oct. 6, 2005 to Oct. 5, 2011, CVS pharmacy retail stores in Oklahoma and elsewhere violated the CSA and the record-keeping regulations by: 1. Creating, entering and maintaining invalid “dummy” DEA registration numbers or numbers other than the valid Drug Enforcement Administration registration number of the prescribing practitioner on dispensing records, which were at times provided to state prescription drug monitoring programs [..].