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Company: PillPack, LLC
Penalty: $5,790,000
Year: 2022
Date: May 2, 2022
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Secondary Offense: fraud
Violation Description: The Justice Department filed and settled a healthcare fraud lawsuit against online retail pharmacy PillPack LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, resolving allegations that PillPack improperly billed Government healthcare programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, for more insulin pens than patients needed according to their prescriptions and falsely under-reported the days-of-supply of insulin dispensed. Under the settlement, PillPack agreed to pay approximately $5.79 million to the United States and various States that were fraudulently overbilled for insulin.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: U.S. Attorney-Southern District of New York
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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