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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: CVS Corporation
Current Parent Company: CVS Health
Penalty: $4,000,000
Year: 2001
Date: August 28, 2001
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: CVS agreed to pay $4 million to a group of state and the federal government to settle allegations that it and and Revco Drugstores, Inc., a pharmacy chain it acquired, dispensed partial prescriptions due to insufficient stock but billed government health insurance programs for the full quantities prescribed for beneficiaries. The settlement was also announced by the U.S. Justice Department; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Rhode Island
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-pharmacies
Source of Data: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.