Some things seems to never change !

Oct of 2012 this appeared in the LA TIMES

U.S. investigating CVS prescription refills

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/19/business/la-fi-lazarus-20121019

The U.S. Justice Department’s civil fraud division is investigating claims that CVS Caremark wrongly refilled prescriptions and billed insurers without the knowledge or the approval of its customers.

The probe will focus primarily on allegations of Medicare fraud, said Shana T. Mintz, an assistant U.S. attorney in the division’s Los Angeles office.

This was posted today

CVS Pharmacy – CVS company adopted the wrongful practice of sending unnecessary drugs to consumers

http://cvs-pharmacy.pissedconsumer.com/cvs-company-adopted-the-wrongful-practice-of-sending-unnecessary-drugs-to-consumers-20140422483842.html

I am not speaking now about mistakes and omissions done by mailing order department of CVS company (which is a separate subject).
Recently, I received from CVS mailing order department the prescription drug, without my request for this. The problem is that I had not yet used a previous portion of this drug. Not only I did not need the new bottle yet, I was about to change the prescription.
It was not first time the company is doing this to me, as my husband had talked to them in the past about this deceitful practice, and for a while they stopped this activity).
When we called this time, the company people refused to admit their fault (not a “mistake”) and take this bottle back. Instead, they were questioning – how much of the drug I had had left from the previous order (which is none of their business). Even worse: they did not have recorded our conversation with them, as I (TV) have found later.

 

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