Target Corp became the latest corporation running a pharmacy to have to pay for violating Medicaid rules that prohibit pharmacies from automatically refilling prescriptions that were not explicitly requested by a patient or caregiver at the time of each filling event. Under a settlement released today by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office, Target Corp. will pay $3 million to resolve allegations that from August 2009 through July 2015 the company operated an unauthorized automatic refill program at their Massachusetts locations.

The settlement was the latest in series of settlements spawned by “qui tam” whistleblower suits that entitles the whistleblower to a portion of the reward.

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