{"id":933983,"date":"2026-10-19T17:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933983\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:22:20","slug":"cvs-to-pay-penalty-for-illegally-filling-prescriptions-that-violated-the-controlled-substances-act-the-presidential-prayer-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933983\/","title":{"rendered":"CVS to Pay Penalty for Illegally Filling Prescriptions that Violated the Controlled Substances Act \u2013 The Presidential Prayer Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"730\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pills-730x438.png\" class=\"attachment-wise-post-thumb size-wise-post-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ states that the agreement will \u201cprovide critical protections for patients and federal healthcare programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department announced that CVS Pharmacy Inc.\u00a0will pay $315 million to resolve allegations that it illegally filed opioid and other controlled substance prescriptions between October of 2013 and December of 2025 in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>The allegations also claimed that CVS sought payment from Medicare and other federal healthcare programs for many of those prescriptions, violating the False Claims Act. In addition to paying the monetary penalty, CVS has also entered into an agreement with the DEA to address future obligations related to the dispensing of controlled substances.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s settlement requires CVS to implement additional safeguards to ensure that prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances are dispensed only when medically appropriate,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Division. \u201cThe remedial measures in this agreement \u2014 including proactive monitoring of opioid prescribing patterns \u2014 will provide critical protections for patients and federal healthcare programs.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us\u2026<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0Assistant Attorney General Shumate and attorneys at the Justice Department as they hold pharmacies accountable for illegal prescription filling.<br \/>\nFor\u00a0members of the DEA as they seek to ensure CVS adopts proper prescription-dispensing safeguards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color\"> Sources: Department of Justice\n<\/p>\n<p>RECENT PRAYER UPDATES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The DOJ states that the agreement will \u201cprovide critical protections for patients and federal healthcare programs.\u201d The Justice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":["post-933983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}