{"id":24806,"date":"2025-08-21T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24806"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:35:11","slug":"cvs-caremark-ordered-to-pay-290m-in-false-claims-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24806","title":{"rendered":"CVS Caremark ordered to pay $290M in false claims suit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Erica Cerutti for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A federal judge has ordered CVS Caremark to pay nearly $290 million in damages after determining the pharmacy benefit manager overbilled Medicare for prescription drugs, according to court documents reviewed by Becker\u2019s.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/cvs-caremark-ordered-to-pay-290m-in-false-claims-suit\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/cvs-caremark-ordered-to-pay-290m-in-false-claims-suit\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" class=\"wp-image-7787\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Erica Cerutti for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A federal judge has ordered CVS Caremark to pay nearly $290 million in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19,6,15,1638],"tags":[1875,1876,61,65,510],"class_list":["post-24806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","category-pbms","tag-false-claims","tag-legal-action","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-pbm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24807,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806\/revisions\/24807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}