Walgreens has agreed to pay up to $350 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, who accused the pharmacy of illegally filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade for ...

Walgreens settles with U.S. government for $300 million over allegations it filled unlawful opioid prescriptions.

Walgreens then sought payment for many of those invalid prescriptions by Medicare and other federal healthcare programs in violation of the False Claims Act. The complaint alleged that Walgreens ...

Per the terms of the settlement, Walgreens will pay the federal government $300 million to resolve allegations that the company violated both the Controlled Substances Act and the False Claims Act ...

Walgreens has agreed to pay up to $350 million for illegally filling unlawful opioid prescriptions and submitting false claims, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois said in ...

The DOJ brought the complaint early this year that alleges Walgreens, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the country, fueled the deadly opioid epidemic by filling controlled substance ...

The U.S. Department of Justice said the settlement marks one of the largest civil settlements involving the Controlled Substances Act in U.S. history, following a sweeping investigation led by the ...

(Joe Raedle/Getty Images / Getty Images) The company was accused of filling millions of invalid prescriptions between August 2012 and March 2023 in violation of the Controlled Substances Act ...

In doing so, the agency said Walgreens violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)— which regulates the distribution of regulated substances — and the False Claims Act (FCA). Walgreens has ...

The initial $300 million settlement resolves allegations that Walgreens violated the Controlled Substances Act and then sought payment for unlawful prescriptions from Medicare and other federal ...