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Company: Walgreens
Current Parent Company: Walgreens Boots Alliance
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Penalty: $9,900,000
Year: 2008
Date: September 29, 2008
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: National retail pharmacy chain Walgreens agreed to pay $9.9 million to four states -- Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan and Minnesota -- and the federal government to resolve allegations of falsely billing the Medicaid program with regard to customers that also had private third-party coverage. The settlement was also announced by the 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: Illinois
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.