Walgreen Co will pay $2.55 million to settle charges by New York’s attorney general that a pharmacy unit improperly billed Medicaid for costly drugs to treat hemophilia patients, without proof that it actually delivered the drugs to those patients.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday said his audit of Medicaid billings by Trinity HomeCare LLC found improper conduct and false billings from 2007 to Sept. 2011.
He said these related to eight patients in New York City and one on Long Island, and included one instance where drugs were simply left for a patient in the hallway of an apartment building.
The case was originally brought by a former Trinity employee who accused the pharmacy of pushing infusion drugs to manage hemophilia symptoms, and billing Medicaid for excess quantities.
Source: Walgreen settles Medicaid false billing case in New York