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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Omnicare Inc.
Current Parent Company: CVS Health
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Penalty: $19,858,782
Year: 2006
Date: November 14, 2006
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: Omnicare agreed to pay $19.8 million to settle multistate litigation alleging that it engaged in fraud by by switching dosage strengths and forms of certain medications provided to Medicaid patients. This was part of a larger $49.5 million settlement also involving the federal government; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Rhode Island
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-pharmacies
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.