A North Carolina pharmacy and others agreed to pay a $4 million settlement in a False Claims Act case alleging that the defendants improperly billed federal healthcare programs for prescription drugs.
All Medicines Inc., doing business as Townsend’s Pharmacy; James Bell; and Melisha West will pay $1.9 million to the US government, and $2.1 million to North Carolina, according to a filing with the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
Whistleblower Bronson Lowery sued in 2017. The federal government and North Carolina intervened in 2020.
Lowery adequately alleged that All Medicines and Bell billed Medicare and ...
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