Four Hudson County pharmacies, including one in Jersey City, have agreed to pay more than $4.3 million to resolve allegations that they violated federal law by knowingly billing health care programs for medications they never dispensed, Philip Lamparello, senior counsel in the United States Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey, announced recently.
According to the settlement agreements, inventory records showed the pharmacies did not purchase enough medications from wholesalers to fill the prescriptions billed to the federal health care programs. According to the Department of Justice, the businesses were alleged to be in violation of the federal False Claims Act.
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