The Department of Justice accused Walgreens of filing millions of prescriptions without a legitimate purpose, including those for opioids.
The 300-page lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleged that Walgreens and its subsidiaries “dispensed millions of unlawful prescriptions in violation of the Controlled Substances Act,” and that the company “sought reimbursement for many of these prescriptions from various federal health care programs in violation the False Claims Act.”
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“This lawsuit seeks to hold Walgreens accountable for the many years that it failed to meet its obligations when dispensing dangerous opioids and other drugs,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division….
