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McLaren agrees to pay record $7.75M settlement over drug diversion allegations
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
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PORT HURON, MI McLaren Health Care Corporation will pay the United States the nation’s largest settlement of its kind for allegations of drug diversion at a health care system.
The United States Attorneys’ Offices for the Western and Eastern Districts of Michigan announced Tuesday, Jan. 19, McLaren Health Care Corporation (MHCC) agreed to pay the United States $7.75 million to resolve allegations that it violated certain provisions of the Controlled Substances Act, according to a U.S. Attorneys’ Office news release.
The government alleged that McLaren Port Huron Pharmacy and McLaren Yale Pharmacy in the Eastern District of Michigan dispensed Schedule II drugs without written prescriptions and despite “red flags” that those drugs were being diverted by the MHCC’s pharmacist who were in charge. The government further alleged that several MHCC facilitie
Department of Justice sues Walmart alleging unlawful opioid dispensing Pharmacists are in the untenable position of being held liable for a doctor s prescription, Walmart said in its own lawsuit.
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In a civil complaint filed Tuesday, the Department of Justice charged Walmart with unlawfully dispensing controlled substances, specifically opioids, from pharmacies it operates across the country and unlawfully distributing these drugs to its pharmacies throughout the height of the prescription opioid crisis.
The complaint said this resulted in hundreds of thousands of violations of the Controlled Substances Act. The Justice Department seeks civil penalties, which could total in the billions of dollars, and injunctive relief.
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