{"id":5909,"date":"2026-10-14T02:43:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/cvs-to-pay-315-million-in-major-opioid-settlement\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T02:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:43:28","slug":"cvs-to-pay-315-million-in-major-opioid-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/cvs-to-pay-315-million-in-major-opioid-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"CVS to Pay $315 Million in Major Opioid Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Federal prosecutors alleged that CVS ignored dangerous prescription patterns, understaffed pharmacies, and billed government healthcare programs for invalid controlled-substance prescriptions. PROVIDENCE, RI \u2013 October 14, 2026 (STL.News) CVS Pharmacy Inc. and related corporate entities have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve sweeping federal allegations that the nationwide pharmacy chain unlawfully dispensed opioids and other controlled substances while seeking reimbursement from taxpayer-funded healthcare programs. The settlement, announced October 13 by the U.S. Department of Justice, concludes a major civil enforcement action over alleged violations of the Controlled Substances Act and the False Claims Act from October 17, 2013, through<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/cvs-to-pay-315-million-in-major-opioid-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal prosecutors alleged that CVS ignored dangerous prescription patterns, understaffed pharmacies, and billed government healthcare programs for invalid controlled-substance prescriptions. PROVIDENCE, RI \u2013 October 14, 2026 (STL.News) CVS Pharmacy Inc. and related corporate entities have agreed to pay $315 million&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5911,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions\/5911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}