A federal judge ordered CVS Health’s (CVS) Omnicare unit to pay $948.8M in penalties and damages, in a whistleblower lawsuit claiming it fraudulently billed the U.S. government for invalid drug prescriptions, Reuters’ Jonathan Stempel reports. In a Monday evening order, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan imposed a $542M penalty for filing 3,342,032 false claims between 2010 and 2018. McMahon also awarded $406.8M of damages, representing three times the $135.6M that a jury awarded on April 29.
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