January 27, 2023

Walgreen Co. has paid $7 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit by the United States and State of Tennessee that alleged the company submitted claims to Tennessee’s Medicaid program for specialty medications that didn’t meet the program’s criteria for coverage.  According to the governments’ 2021 complaint, one of Walgreens’ former pharmacists falsified prior authorization requests and records for 65 Medicaid beneficiaries who didn’t meet program requirements.  The company then billed TennCare under those false prior authorization requests, and later failed to make repayments even after it discovered its employee’s misconduct.  USAO EDTN

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