CVS Omnicare ordered to pay $949 million in government fraud case

CVS just got caught. Again. This time to the tune of $949 million dollars. Fraud. Government. Elder care. You know, the usual. hashtag#CaptainObvious

Omnicare, a CVS-owned pharmacy service for nursing homes, pumped unnecessary drugs into hundreds of thousands of old people. Because it made money. Because no one stops them. Because they can.

And they did. For years.

The Department of Justice calls it a “failure of corporate responsibility.” That’s like calling Chernobyl a maintenance issue. These people dosed dementia patients with meds they didn’t need and billed the government for it. Then they got a write-up and went back to work.

Fun Fact: CVS made over $300 billion last year. This penalty is a rounding error. No one goes to jail. No one gets fired. The board shrugs. Wall Street claps. Patients vanish. And, for some reason, we still shop there.

This is what “healthcare” means in America. A system that lets billion-dollar companies operate like drug dealers in lab coats. And when they get caught?

They write a check. And keep the lights on.

Don’t ask why patients don’t trust the system. Ask why the system doesn’t care about patients.

SOURCE ➡️ https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/cvs-omnicare-949-million-government-fraud-penalty/752544/