CVS to pay $315 million settlement with DOJ over opioid prescriptions

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCVS has agreed to pay three hundred fifteen million dollars to settle a Justice Department lawsuit over opioid prescriptions.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLola Cruz is outside a store with details.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentI'm standing outside a CVS in the afternoon rush, and behind me a man is carrying a receipt that reaches his knees.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThe government says the chain filled opioid and other controlled-substance prescriptions improperly, then billed federal healthcare programs for many of them.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThe suit was filed in twenty twenty-four.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentI covered twenty years of war zones, and I have never seen a checkout line this suspicious of its own coupons. Sir, a minute?

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   Gus TamblynSure. I'm Gus Tamblyn, I'm in here twice a week, and I've never read one of these receipts in my life.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentNever? Three feet of paper, and you didn't look once?

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   Gus TamblynOkay, I kept them. I have a shoebox. Actually it's a bathtub. It's mostly for the coupons that expired in March.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA bathtub.

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    Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentSir, I'll need the March ones.

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    Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThat's the whole story, Hank: the company pays, the receipts pile up, and the bathtub knows more than we do.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe settlement resolves that lawsuit, and the payment is expected soon. My thermostat fix is also almost done.

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    Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentAlmost done is a legal term, Hank. Ask anyone in that line.